FAY WELDON, one of the most successful advertising copywriters of her generation, is now recognized as one of our most important and distinctive literary voices. She published her first novel, A Fat Woman’s Joke, in 1976, and has gone on to write over thirty novels, as well as short stories and screenplays. In 1983, she wrote The Life and Loves of a She Devil. The story of Ruth, taking delicious revenge on her cheating husband Bobbo, has become a modern classic, adapted for film and television and recently serialised on Radio 4.
In 2001, Fay was awarded a CBE for services to literature. In 2015, her short story collection, Mischief, celebrated four decades of her witty, engaging and socially observant writing. She teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University and lives on a hilltop in Dorset.