Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide: A Collection of Short Stories

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Fay Weldon. Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide: A Collection of Short Stories

Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide. Fay Weldon

Table of Contents

Eyes in the Dark

A Knife for Cutting Mangoes

The Medium is the Message

The Site

A Summer Person

What the Papers Say

Smoking Chimneys

Percentage Trust

How Donna Came to Win the Lottery

Trophy Wife

Live Like a Dog, Alone

Well, I Said

Freeze Eggs, Freeze Eggs!

Cold, Wet Nose

Wild Strawberries

I, Boadicea

Nothing to Wear

Heaven Knows

Living by the Small Print

Queen Gertrude plc—A radio play. Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Also by Fay Weldon

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Cover Page

Title Page

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‘And I’m the one who employs her,’ said Oriole, ‘so I’m the one who ought to ask her to join us at table, not anyone else,’ and there was a shocked silence while the brothers looked at her. ‘You don’t own people because you pay them,’ said Hugh. Tell that to Dree Pharmaceuticals, thought Oriole. ‘It’s just nice to have a woman around at mealtimes,’ said Clive. ‘And you know you’re so often away. Don’t be so dog in the manger, Oriole.’

And she was just thinking she might have been married to both of them, except she only went to bed with one of them, the way they both kept telling her what to say and do, when the second cup took off, a flash of gold glittering in the air, in its unnatural arc, and smashed. This time Oriole spoke first.

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