Meet Frances, one-time national treasure, former famous writer... and Fay Weldon's might-have-been younger sister.
It's 2013. Fay has long since emigrated (wouldn't you, if your imaginary sister stole your future?), and eighty-year-old Frances, her glory days gone, is savouring a slice of National Meat Loaf in her once-magnificent house. Communism's dead, capitalism's fallen, and now government bailiffs are banging on her door...
How did it come to this? When did CiviCams and powdered egg replace gossipy dinners and chocolate mousse? As Frances tries to make sense of her story, fact and fiction begin to implode. What secrets are her family hiding? Is her skunk-smoking grandson plotting revolution upstairs? And just what makes National Meat Loaf so tasty?
- ISBN10 0857894919
- ISBN13 9780857894915
- Publish Date 1 April 2011 (first published 1 September 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Atlantic Books
- Imprint Corvus
- Edition Main
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 144
- Language English