Critique of Pure Fay

Fay Weldon’s autobiography (up to year 32) continues to entertain. The Guardian is seduced by the lure of biography: “her fiction suddenly seems a whole lot less peculiar … much of the work reads as if it had been dictated, in high spirits, after dinner”. The Irish Independent: “self-invention and self-reinvention are much of what this very entertaining half-life is about.” But luckily, “to her credit, Weldon doesn’t try to tie it up all too neatly.” Of course not … we have to have a reason to hang out for 32+.