Mantrapped. Fay Weldon

      

      Mantrapped

      Fay Weldon

      

      

London, New York, Toronto and Sydney

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

Trisha leaves home

Writer’s note

Trisha and her mattress

Riches to rags

Trisha faces the future

Novels are not enough

Times I have cried in public

Trisha’s mistakes

On the anger of mothers

Trisha starts a new life

A selection of antecedents

Life in the slow lane

       Fading customs

       At the dry-cleaners’

       A lifetime of keeping clothes clean – three pages the nondomestic reader is free to skip

       To the Novel!

       Peter collects his dry-cleaning

       On the question of souls

       Opening salvos in a marriage, that is to say, my own

       Consequences. The past catches up

       Doralee waits

       Gynaecological dreams

       A gynaecological history

       Still waiting

       All that bad stuff

       And more waiting

       On the villainy of women

       A good explanation for absence

       Back to the past

       Doralee, Trisha and Peter

       What will happen next?

       Trisha, Doralee and Peter visit the psychiatrist

       On psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists—and how to lose readers

       Trisha, Doralee and Peter visit the parson

       Feminist!

       At Kleene Machine

       Strange things do happen

       Doralee is tired

       Selling up and moving on

       Making good

       Trying to get out of the city

       Doralee adjusts

       A home to go to

       Temptation

       Home and normality is restored

       P.S. Ideas, interviews & features…

       About the author

       Split Personalities Louise Tucker talks to Fay Weldon

       LIFE AT A GLANCE

       FAVOURITE THINGS

       A Writing Life

       About the book

       The Real Me? By Fay Weldon

       Read on

       Have You Read?

       About the Author

       Praise

       Also by Fay Weldon