From Amazon.com:
"The 21st novel by the "quintessential anti-romance novelist" Fay Weldon, Worst Fears focuses on Alexandra Ludd, a minor actress whose seemingly idyllic life in the West Country in England is turned upside-down when her husband Ned dies of a heart attack. Alexandra learns that not only was her marriage a sham, but that her friends and family are not as loyal as they seemed. When at the funeral her husband's mistress, Jenny, receives more sympathy than Alexandra and even her dog, Diamond, snubs her, Alexandra realizes it is she who has been shallow and vain, and embarks on a journey to discover what really sustains romantic love."

On its way to WormyOne in Brighton, UK.

Thanks so much AliceF for a very generous RABCK. I'm off to cross it off my wish list now. :-)

This is classic Fay Weldon stuff - a pithily written, witty story about men's perfidies and women's vanity. It's an easy read (it took me no more than a few hours) and is in many ways very light. At the same time, it raises some challenging questions about what makes relationships last, how we deceive ourselves and the benefits of forgiveness for the forgiver.

It would be easy to get wound up by the story - there are times when Alexandra is treated outrageously - but I found I could turn that off if I accepted that was the way the book worked and laughed with it instead.

By the way, the Amazon review that AliceF has copied above is very inaccurate. Alexandra is supposed to be one of Britain's leading actresses not a minor one, the mistress' name is not Jenny, the funeral is by no means the key or the turning point of Alexandra's story and she does not "embark on a journey to discover what really sustains romantic love". I wonder if that reviewer had even read the book!

RELEASE NOTES:

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