Big Women. Fay Weldon

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СКАЧАТЬ There was to be a further share issue amongst such members of the Board as could bear to be tainted by commercialism. These included Layla, Stephie, Nancy and Alice. Big Women all. Of the initial share issue a year back, thirty per cent had gone to Layla’s mystery backer, whom she claimed to be a member of her family, and was most assuredly female.

      ‘I haven’t seen her naked,’ said Layla. ‘I can hardly ask her to fucking strip, but she looks like a woman to me, and her children call her mother. OK?’

      Nancy’s hopes of romance, never quite stifled, were given encouragement by her encounter with the man known at Medusa as Layla’s live-in lover. His name was Johnny; he was a writer and book-critic, charming, literate, impoverished, unmarried, and very English. Johnny was assumed to be cover for Layla’s real lover. He was a man of no interest to the press, being neither a socialite nor a truck-driver. These days enough couples lived together without benefit of marriage ceremony to make ‘living in sin’ not much of an issue. It was still customary, of course, for cohabiting partners to be slept separately if ever they stayed over at a parental home.

      The war of the generations flickered on, soon to be swamped by the gender war. Layla’s secret lover was supposed to be royal, and rich; but no one knew for certain, and she wasn’t saying. Or perhaps, some conjectured, he didn’t exist at all: he was Layla’s invention, a matter of innuendo, a method of turning away enquiry so she could get on with the real love of her life, that is to say, Medusa.

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