Fay Weldon Books in Order

When Esther walks out on her husband and tries to lose weight, her revolt against food and domestic duty becomes a fierce, funny attack on marriage, beauty, and the roles women are meant to play.

Set among mothers, daughters, lovers, and friends, this interwoven novel follows women trying to make sense of love, dependence, and respectability in postwar Britain.

Chloe, Grace, and Marjorie carry a friendship from wartime childhood into difficult adult lives. Old loyalties, class differences, and the damage men leave behind keep pulling them together and apart.

After a woman's sudden death, Weldon turns the afterlife into a sly, eerie comedy about vanity, desire, and the unfinished business the living cannot escape.

A sharp domestic play in which everyday talk becomes a weapon, exposing the little cruelties, evasions, and bargains that hold a relationship together.

Raised in chaos and repeatedly let down by men and circumstance, Praxis Duveen keeps reinventing herself. Weldon makes her struggle for survival both funny and painfully clear-eyed.

This black comedy follows three women across twenty-five years of intimacy, jealousy, and disappointment, replaying old arguments until affection and rivalry are almost impossible to separate.

A young couple's dream of country life and motherhood turns strange when pregnancy, jealousy, and local folklore begin to overlap. It is domestic comedy edged with real menace.

Weldon's first story collection gathers eleven sharp, unsettling tales about marriage, friendship, sisterhood, and the everyday bargains women are pushed to make.

Weldon turns political glamour and intimate betrayal into dark comedy when power, sex, and parenthood collide in very public ways.

When Ruth Patchett's husband leaves her for glamorous novelist Mary Fisher, she refuses to stay crushed. Her revenge becomes a ferocious satire on beauty, power, and reinvention.

When a magazine arranges a one-week wife swap between country Anne and sophisticated Cat, the experiment exposes class, marriage, and desire. A snowstorm makes the consequences harder to escape.

Written as letters to a niece, this lively nonfiction book uses Jane Austen as a way into reading, writing, and the life of literature itself.

A collection of stories where ordinary relationships tilt toward the eerie, the comic, or the cruel. Weldon keeps one foot in domestic life and the other in the uncanny.

A short study of the writer Rebecca West, blending biography, criticism, and appreciation. Weldon is especially good on intellect, ambition, and the price of being a serious woman in public.

When Natalie's husband disappears with another woman, she is left stranded with children, no money, and no plan. Weldon turns her fall into a black comedy about welfare, respectability, and revenge.

A snowstorm traps soldiers, servants, children, and guests inside a military academy, and the house becomes a savage miniature of class conflict and war. Funny, bleak, and intentionally absurd.

Helen and her daughter Nell are drawn into a dark, adventurous family saga shaped by charming, dangerous men. Weldon blends fairy tale, satire, and moral reckoning.

Set in a near future ruled by a strange new religion, this short novel follows a dead woman speaking back from beyond the grave. It is witty, eerie, and sharply satirical.

Sandra, a television astronomer known as Starlady Sandra, runs off with a jazzman and abandons her careful life. What follows is a funny, reckless story about lust, freedom, and consequences.

In a strange future where machines hunt the last humans, a fearsome mechanical dog becomes the center of a tense, imaginative adventure for younger readers.

An angry boy invited to a party lets his imagination run wild, dreaming up a puddle full of bizarre entertainments. A playful children's story with a mischievous streak.

A brisk collection of essays on late twentieth-century Britain, where Weldon takes on politics, manners, religion, and a good many national hypocrisies.

Divorced Joanna May discovers that her rich, controlling ex-husband has secretly made several clones of her. What follows is a sharp, strange novel about identity, science, and female solidarity.

Eleanor Darcy explains her grand plan for a moneyless future to two journalists, and the novel watches idealism slide toward chaos. A brisk satire on politics, economics, and ego.

A collection of stories about women facing life-altering choices in work, love, sex, and family. The settings vary, but the wit and sting are unmistakably Weldon's.

A compact, darkly comic tale about chance, delay, and the tiny miscalculations that can redirect a whole life.

A sinister driver who may be the Devil glides into the lives of three women, and prosperity suddenly looks dangerous. Weldon mixes fantasy, temptation, and social satire.

An irresistible, deeply troublesome man blows through the lives of several women, leaving desire, disruption, and hard bargains behind him. Weldon turns sexual obsession into a wicked social comedy.

When therapy culture enters a marriage already under strain, private grievances harden into blame, obsession, and revenge. Weldon is funny, bitter, and unsparing about emotional fashion.

A collection of stories in which innocence rarely lasts long. Weldon moves from domestic realism to the eerie and cruel, always with sharp comic timing.

Lady Angelica Rice's husband leaves, and the voices in her head stop behaving like metaphors. This divorce comedy turns multiple selves into a wickedly funny battle for control.

This collection gathers some of Weldon's sharpest short fiction, full of difficult women, bad marriages, cruel jokes, and sudden reversals.

When actress Alexandra Ludd's husband dies suddenly, grief gives way to a far uglier discovery about their marriage. A fast, blackly funny novel about adultery, performance, and self-deception.

A story collection that keeps an eye on fathers, families, and the shifting rules of domestic life. Funny on the surface, it is barbed underneath.

Five women come together to build a feminist publishing house in 1970s London. Their revolution is full of ideals, ego, friendship, sex, and the usual power struggles.

A book of essays ranging across sex, politics, therapy, royalty, religion, and changing gender roles. It is argumentative, funny, and unmistakably Weldon.

A play about a group of women who meet through books and end up exposing far more than literary taste. Weldon uses club talk to get at friendship, rivalry, and self-invention.

When Sophia moves her difficult mother into a luxury retirement complex in Rhode Island, family duty turns into a strange late-life odyssey. Weldon is tart, funny, and unexpectedly tender.

Fresh out of prison after attacking her husband's mistress, Grace McNab Salt tries to re-enter fashionable life. Weldon turns adultery, status, and luxury into bright, venomous comedy.

Weldon's memoir of her early life, from childhood and New Zealand years through odd jobs, motherhood, and the start of her writing career. Personal, sharp-eyed, and very funny.

A family trapped above an antique shop as floodwater rises must face one another with nowhere to hide. A tightly wound play about domestic pressure and old resentments.

A story collection about marriages, ghosts, betrayals, and sudden reversals, where ordinary lives tilt toward the comic, cruel, or uncanny.

Part novel and part authorial game, this meta story follows Trisha as love, money, and storytelling itself keep changing the rules. Weldon happily blurs memoir and invention.

A happy household begins to buckle when a young au pair arrives and everyone's needs become harder to ignore. Weldon turns childcare, marriage, and class into a domestic battleground.

Part advice book and part provocation, this nonfiction title ranges over love, sex, work, age, and the small practical bargains of modern life.

Twelve women stranded at a remote spa over Christmas and New Year swap stories, secrets, and judgments around the jacuzzi. A modern riff on the framed tale, funny and sharp.

Sappho Stubbs-Palmer marries a widower and inherits not only a house but a tense, watchful stepfamily. This is a sly novel about property, memory, and female competition.

In a Britain worn down by permanent recession and rationing, an elderly writer's fractured family is pulled into political upheaval. Part family novel, part dystopian satire.

Maori guiding spirits hover over Beverley, her granddaughter Scarlet, and a messy north London family crisis. Weldon mixes ghost story, family comedy, and metafiction with real gusto.

In 1899, the Dilberne family's money collapses and marriage becomes a financial strategy. Arthur is pushed toward wealthy American heiress Minnie O'Brien in a witty, sharply observed social comedy.

As 1901 ends, the Dilbernes are richer again but no calmer. Coronation plans, Minnie’s new role, and the arrival of orphaned Adela stir up fresh trouble in the household.

In 1905, a royal visit, family quarrels, and a scandalous book push the Dilberne estate back into upheaval. Minnie must decide how far she will go for her children and her place.

A short, uncanny novella in which dreams, second sight, and storytelling slide into one another. The effect is playful, strange, and quietly unsettling.

A selected volume of stories that shows Weldon at her sharpest, moving from domestic comedy to darker tales of vanity, betrayal, revenge, and misread desire.

In 1922, wealthy, awkward Vivvie sets out to buy herself a husband and escape the grip of her monstrous mother, Adela. Interwar London gives Weldon a rich stage for class, beauty, and family war.

Rozzie, born in 2000 but tied by blood to the Dilberne line through an old fertility decision, starts digging into her origins. Modern family secrets become dark comedy and revenge.

Ruth Patchett, now eighty-four, is ready to step back from power, but younger women are eager to inherit what she built. A late, sharp return to one of Weldon's most famous creations.

A blunt, funny handbook for rejected writers, built around the reasons a manuscript stalls and what to do next. Weldon mixes hard truths with practical encouragement.