Mantrapped: A Novel

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Mantrapped is a dazzling new work that continues Fay Weldons critically acclaimed memoir, Auto da Fay, and tells the story of a woman down on her luck. Trisha is forty-four and at the end of her rope: creditors are coming and boyfriends have long left. Then, one day, on the stairs above her local dry cleaner, she bumps into the dashing Peter Watson, an editor for the local newspaper. After brushing past each other, they mysteriously and instantly swap souls. Peter looks down to see himself housed in Trishas much curvier form, and Trisha discovers shes newly equipped with hairy legs and a six-pack. Mixing humor, imagination and insight, Mantrapped proves that Weldon is still the best at writing about the sexes.

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"Weldon's greatest marvel is probably not her fast pace or brilliant asides but her wit and wisdom about sex."