Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2491452 in Books
• Published on: 1991-05-23
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Synopsis
Two journalists, Hugo Vansitart and Valerie Jones, meet while interviewing Eleanor Darcy, the notorious wife of the former economic adviser to the Cabinet. Falling in love, they hole up together in a hotel to write their pieces, but Eleanor's view of utopia seems to affect them both strangely.

Customer Reviews

a great story in her shocking style
The novel contains little chapters, some of them interviews with Eleanor Darcy and each of the two journalists, Hugo and Valerie, some of them pieces of Eleanor Darcy's life story as it would appear in the novel written by Valerie and some of them the thoughts and actions of Valerie herself, who deserted her children and her very pedantic husband. It describes the reasons for which Eleanor became obsessed with Darcy and Darcy's utopia and her evolution from a sad and poor child to a leader of opinion in our faulty society.

Darcy's utopia itself is an egalitarist and closed society (in fact a group of societies) with rules which can be adjusted from time to time to conform the wishes of the members.

Fay Weldon wrote another great book on her prefered themes like human weakness, infidelity, children, feminism and sex. Alhough the utopia as described in the book has its obvious faults, I enjoyed a lot reading this story and I will definitely read other novels by Fay Weldon, who is a genius writer in my opinion.