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“From the age of 15, it’s just been me and a piano in the corner of a room,” says Bill Fay. “I’m not an upfront kind of guy.”This is an understatement. The enigmatic 80-year-old has a music career going back to 1967, but there is just one live performance of Fay online – a single song on Later… With Jools Holland – and he has no interest in being a public figure. “I record just for the sake of the music,” he says.Fay’s chosen location to chat is a Toby Carvery, an upgrade from the car park he picked for his brief…

By Sylvia Hui | Associated Press LONDON — British author Fay Weldon, known for her sharp wit and acerbic observations about women’s experiences and sexual politics in novels including “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil,” has died, her family said Wednesday. She was 91. Weldon was a playwright, screenwriter and a prolific novelist, producing 30 novels as well as short stories and plays written for television, radio and the stage. She was one of the writers on the popular 1970s drama series “Upstairs, Downstairs,” receiving…

Lara Feigel: ‘When I first read her novels, I saw myself as a feminist reading feminist classics’Writer and critic“We must both live our lives to the full,” Bobbo tells his wife, Ruth, in The Life and Loves of a She Devil, unilaterally announcing an open marriage. She has a baby and is four months pregnant, holding her mouth together to stop herself vomiting as he talks. It’s as gleeful for the reader as it is for Ruth herself when she starts throwing food on the floor and announcing news of his sexual exploits to his…

British author Fay Weldon, best known for her write-ups like `The Life and Loves of a She-Devil` and `The Cloning of Joanna May,` has passed away aged 91. On Wednesday, Weldon`s agent tweeted a family statement, which read, "It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Fay Weldon (CBE), author, essayist and playwright. She died peacefully this morning 4th January 2023." The cause of her death was not revealed. Fay Weldon - Family Announcement. It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Fay Weldon…

‘I have an easy disposition and a gregarious nature,” explained Fay Weldon in response to a question about how to navigate life in the public eye from Hilary Mantel, with whom she was in conversation at Bath Spa University in 2014. Film of the event is online, and there is something wonderful about seeing the pair, originals both, laughing in their academic gowns, so unalike in many respects but both so intently focused on their work, and on their keen apprehension of the binds and double-binds in which women have found…

I have worked with a lot of writers on the festival circuit, most of them delightful – but I have never seen such an adoring literary audience as I did when I was on stage with Fay Weldon. These were second-generation feminists, working mothers, divorcees, and they absolutely loved her for pouring her rage and impish sense of fun into her books – not just The Life and Loves of a She Devil but The Hearts and Lives of Men, Down Among the Women and more. She was prolific, which she always complained meant nobody took her…

Fay Weldon, who chronicled the ups and downs of British life in novels, TV dramas, plays and short fiction for more than five decades has died aged 91, her son Dan Weldon has confirmed. Weldon charted lives shaped by class and the sexual revolution in more than 30 novels including The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Splitting and the Booker prize-shortlisted Praxis. The sharp dialogue, scathing wit and satirical energy of her fiction were forged in the world of stage and television, where her screenwriting credits included…