by snowydays | May 15, 2013 | News and Views from Fay Weldon
April 2013: Denmark There are good festivals and bad ones. One has to be careful. A badly-organised one, (often the case when students do the organising – they can have difficulty realising that even if you’re a writer you’re not a figment of the imagination but have...
by snowydays | May 15, 2013 | News and Views from Fay Weldon
March, 2013 : Norway The temperature in Oslo was minus 17 and I hadn’t finished The New Countess, third in the trilogy, as I had hoped. It just wouldn’t finish easily. On the other hand a week out in a really cold climate might shock my brain into some useful new...
by snowydays | Oct 24, 2010 | Childbirth, Families, Feminism, News and Views from Fay Weldon, Society
This is the title of a story I once wrote (back in 2001 when such things were just a gleam in a geneticist’s eye.) Do it, do it! I cried then, even as I quaver now: it can be done, and is being done. If you’re a fertile young woman, and any employer is offering to...