Bibliograph

Chalcot Crescent, Fay Weldon

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Chalcot Crescent, Fay Weldon

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Chalcot Crescent

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

702799327

Responsibility statement

Fay Weldon

Summary

Its 2013 and eighty-year-old Frances (part-time copy-writer, has-been writer, one-time national treasure) is sitting on the stairs of Number 3, Chalcot Crescent, Primrose Hill, listening to the debt collectors pounding on her front door. From this house she's witnessed five decades of world history - the fall of communism, the death of capitalism - and now, with the bailiffs, world history has finally reached her doorstep. While she waits for the bailiffs to give up and leave, Frances writes (not that she has an agent any more, or that her books are still published, or even that there are any publishers left). She writes about the Shock, the Crunch, the Squeeze, the Recovery, the Fall, the Crisis and the Bite, about NUG the National Unity Government, about ration books, powercuts, National Meat Loaf (suitable for vegetarians) and the new Neighbourhood Watch. She writes about family secrets... The problem is that fact and fiction are blurring in Frances' mind. Is it her writer's..

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