"Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on."
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"'Only one way out of here'" The Guardian (28 October 2006).
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Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon, CBE, FRSL (born Franklin Birkinshaw; 22 September 1931 – 4 January 2023) was an English novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. An American movie adaptation of her novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil was filmed as She-Devil.
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