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Cover Page

Title Page

Trisha leaves home

Writer’s note

Trisha and her mattress

Riches to rags

Trisha faces the future

Novels are not enough

Times I have cried in public

Trisha’s mistakes

On the anger of mothers

Trisha starts a new life

A selection of antecedents

Life in the slow lane

Fading customs

At the dry-cleaners’

A lifetime of keeping clothes clean – three pages the nondomestic reader is free to skip

To the Novel!

Peter collects his dry-cleaning

On the question of souls

Opening salvos in a marriage, that is to say, my own

Consequences. The past catches up

Doralee waits

Gynaecological dreams

A gynaecological history

Still waiting

All that bad stuff

And more waiting

On the villainy of women

A good explanation for absence

Back to the past

Doralee, Trisha and Peter

What will happen next?

Trisha, Doralee and Peter visit the psychiatrist

On psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists—and how to lose readers

Trisha, Doralee and Peter visit the parson

Feminist!

At Kleene Machine

Strange things do happen

Doralee is tired

Selling up and moving on

Making good

Trying to get out of the city

Doralee adjusts

A home to go to

Temptation

Home and normality is restored

P.S. Ideas, interviews & features…

About the author

Split Personalities Louise Tucker talks to Fay Weldon

LIFE AT A GLANCE

FAVOURITE THINGS

A Writing Life

About the book

The Real Me? By Fay Weldon

Read on

Have You Read?

About the Author

Praise

Also by Fay Weldon

Copyright

About the Publisher