Splitting
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How many women can you fit into one body? A novel of split personalities.
A marriage, its breakdown, and a perforated heroine: one woman, many faces, many personalities, and more emerging: a crumbling house, and the rooms of that house (which in our dreams are aspects of the self). Any more trauma and itâs all over!
Sir Edwin Rice has decided to divorce Lady Angelica, ex-rock star. She has behaved intolerably. He petitions the Court to set him free. Angelica fights back. She is not what he thinks â but then what woman ever is? Angelica takes a job as secretary to her husbandâs divorce solicitor â only to find one false personality leading to another. How is she to find herself: amongst good wife Angelica, Angel the tart, Jelly the secretary, all-male Ajax, Angela the hopeless â and only one body, albeit a beautiful one, to go round between the lot of them?
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Fay Weldon is a novelist, screenwriter and cultural journalist. Her novels include âThe Life and Loves of a She-Devilâ, âPuffballâ, âBig Womenâ and âRhode Island Bluesâ. She has also published her autobiography âAuto da Fayâ. Her most recent novel was the critically acclaimed âShe May Not Leaveâ. She lives in Dorset.
