Mantrapped
Fay Weldon
London, New York, Toronto and Sydney
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Trisha leaves home
Writer’s note
Trisha and her mattress
Riches to rags
Trisha faces the future
Novels are not enough
Times I have cried in public
Trisha’s mistakes
On the anger of mothers
Trisha starts a new life
A selection of antecedents
Life in the slow lane
Fading customs
At the dry-cleaners’
A lifetime of keeping clothes clean – three pages the nondomestic reader is free to skip
To the Novel!
Peter collects his dry-cleaning
On the question of souls
Opening salvos in a marriage, that is to say, my own
Consequences. The past catches up
Doralee waits
Gynaecological dreams
A gynaecological history
Still waiting
All that bad stuff
And more waiting
On the villainy of women
A good explanation for absence
Back to the past
Doralee, Trisha and Peter
What will happen next?
Trisha, Doralee and Peter visit the psychiatrist
On psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists—and how to lose readers
Trisha, Doralee and Peter visit the parson
Feminist!
At Kleene Machine
Strange things do happen
Doralee is tired
Selling up and moving on
Making good
Trying to get out of the city
Doralee adjusts
A home to go to
Temptation
Home and normality is restored
P.S. Ideas, interviews & features…
About the author
Split Personalities Louise Tucker talks to Fay Weldon
LIFE AT A GLANCE
FAVOURITE THINGS
A Writing Life
About the book
The Real Me? By Fay Weldon
Read on
Have You Read?
About the Author
Praise
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