The Presidents Child
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Presidents Child
By (Author) Fay Weldon
HarperCollins Publishers
Flamingo
9th September 2003
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 15mm
189g
Description
A chilling tale that interweaves the post-Watergate world of American politics and the way in which our past indiscretions inevitably catch up with us. Isabel Acre's journey through life has taken her from the Australian outback via the beds and alleys of Fleet Street and the seamier side of Washington high life to a comfortable home in London, a reputation as a serious journalist, and a husband in the new chore-sharing, child-rearing mould. Suddenly, however, the past which Isabel had thought safely behind her becomes the source of actual physical danger. With frightening ease, the worlds of political intrigue and murderous conspiracy intrude into the cosiness of her domestic life. Whom can she trust Man When she reveals to her husband that she long ago had an affair with a young American senator, a man who is now challenging for the Presidential nomination itself, and that her son is the love-child of that affair, even she cannot foresee the consequences. Love got her into the predicament in which she finds herself; but can love now get her out of it
Reviews
'Very funny about hopelessly uncommunicating "communicators"... Fay Weldon does this world-gone-mad-with-conspiracy very well' Sunday Telegraph 'Delicious, far-fetched and enormously enjoyable' Daily Mail 'Weldon is a brilliant needle-sharp writer who pins down human emotions with absolute accuracy' Company
Author Bio
After hard times and odd jobs as a lone parent, Fay Weldon became one of the top advertising copywriters of her generation. She moved to TV drama (writing the pilot episode of the iconic series Upstairs, Downstairs) then turned to novels - including the classic The Life and Loves of a She Devil and The Cloning of Joanna May. A sequel to her acclaimed Love and Inheritance trilogy, Before the War, was published in 2017. Fay's been made a CBE for services to literature and she's currently a Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
