Even non-fans of Weldon's acute, acerbic attitude to life should be enthralled by this honest, courageous, funny-sad account of how, struggling against huge odds, she got where she is. From New Zealand to poverty, homelessness and dislocation in post-war London, from bad girl to Acton housewife, from jack-of-any-trade to writer. Eccentric and dysfunctional families, ghosts, children, husbands, fate and the inter-weaving of past and present ...she answers questions but she also asks some. Wonderful!
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 22 February 2004 ) |
