Rediscover the brilliance of Down Among the Women in the Mermaid Collection - classic books by
popular pioneering female authors republished to delight new generations of readers. Pre-order
this gorgeous edition now. A classic from beloved national treasure Fay Weldon sees four
women break the shackles of patriarchy and domesticity in 1950s London from the author of The
Lives and Loves of a She-Devil With a foreword by Jenny Colgan 'Down among the women. What
a place to be!' So says Wanda a former radical who left her husband and raised her daughter
Scarlet to be as liberated as she. But twenty-year-old Scarlet with an abortion already behind
her is about to discover real liberation - as a single mother in Fifties' London. Yet
Scarlet's not alone. Meet her friends: Sylvia the born victim respectable Jocelyn willingly
trapped in a dull bourgeois marriage Audrey bristling to break free of her conventional life
and Helen beautiful vibrant - and very doomed. Over the course of twenty years from the
Fifties to the Seventies Scarlet Wanda and their friends will wonder if they can ever become
the women they always dreamed of being. Praise for Fay Weldon: 'A national treasure'
Literary Review 'Wickedly stylish. Bursting with intelligence and fire' Daily Telegraph
'Prolific and provocative Weldon shines brightest in the league table of British women
novelists' Time Out 'A queen of words' Caitlin Moran
