Mantrapped

Mantrapped
Fay Weldon

A brilliant, inventive and endlessly delightful memoir from Fay Weldon, one of our most respected commentators on sex, relationships and gender, that picks up where her acclaimed Auto da Fay left off.Fay Weldon, one of our cleverest and best-loved novelists, returns to the rich material of her own eventful life in this stylish blend of memoir and fiction. Mantrapped is the continuing story of Weldon, writer, mother, daughter, sister, cook, campaigner, juggler of life, time, work and money. Weldon has been rich and poor, sad and happy, and throughout it all, well and truly mantrapped – but does not regret it one bit. From 1960s London (wild parties, no money) to 1970s Somerset (animals, wild parties, no money) Weldon has lived a life rich in adventure and courage. The things you regret, as she points out, are what you don't do, not what you do.In this vastly entertaining book she argues that in a world in which the writer can no longer hope to be anonymous, it is devious, and indeed dishonourable, to keep yourself out of your own books. True to her word, in Mantrapped we get Fay Weldon at her most charismatic, perceptive and entertaining.

Mantrapped

Fay Weldon

London, New York, Toronto and Sydney

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#u619631b1-148c-5f96-b1c9-5182b9b14f7a)

Title Page (#ud06cd016-d6ed-501c-b0f6-508088666208)

Trisha leaves home (#u6545b762-b3fa-5f33-ab25-cbb87cafc52b)

Writer’s note (#u618815fa-2548-5125-9b27-2e666a5453f2)

Trisha and her mattress (#u62729a70-9308-5398-9bda-b263adc16dfd)

Riches to rags (#uba2c15c9-8e01-55c6-b0fc-c1281345d8c3)

Trisha faces the future (#u858e2b9e-fd80-5ef5-8658-b6ebd5e15b26)

Novels are not enough (#u4048e656-6bcb-572f-91e0-5bc27553724d)

Times I have cried in public (#uf3ad8156-9e24-518a-b0c4-84137c83dd3f)

Trisha’s mistakes (#uee40a256-edf6-5a59-bb88-54d9debc87f0)

On the anger of mothers (#ufe731f67-5012-5672-8f1e-3d0c8bed7542)

Trisha starts a new life (#u91fe5827-b674-5861-af00-4c831d9208a7)

A selection of antecedents (#u69068250-2de5-5801-9ab9-c232798ba408)

Life in the slow lane (#uada602bd-6a07-565f-a7e5-cc7eb51d6d20)

Fading customs (#litres_trial_promo)

At the dry-cleaners’ (#litres_trial_promo)

A lifetime of keeping clothes clean – three pages the nondomestic reader is free to skip (#litres_trial_promo)

To the Novel! (#litres_trial_promo)

Peter collects his dry-cleaning (#litres_trial_promo)

On the question of souls (#litres_trial_promo)

Opening salvos in a marriage, that is to say, my own (#litres_trial_promo)

Consequences. The past catches up (#litres_trial_promo)

Doralee waits (#litres_trial_promo)

Gynaecological dreams (#litres_trial_promo)

A gynaecological history (#litres_trial_promo)

Still waiting (#litres_trial_promo)

All that bad stuff (#litres_trial_promo)

And more waiting (#litres_trial_promo)

On the villainy of women (#litres_trial_promo)

A good explanation for absence (#litres_trial_promo)

Back to the past (#litres_trial_promo)

Doralee, Trisha and Peter (#litres_trial_promo)

What will happen next? (#litres_trial_promo)

Trisha, Doralee and Peter visit the psychiatrist (#litres_trial_promo)

On psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists—and how to lose readers (#litres_trial_promo)

Trisha, Doralee and Peter visit the parson (#litres_trial_promo)

Feminist! (#litres_trial_promo)

At Kleene Machine (#litres_trial_promo)

Strange things do happen (#litres_trial_promo)

Doralee is tired (#litres_trial_promo)

Selling up and moving on (#litres_trial_promo)

Making good (#litres_trial_promo)

Trying to get out of the city (#litres_trial_promo)

Doralee adjusts (#litres_trial_promo)