Remember Me (Paperback, New Ed)

Marriage - loving, romantic, sexy, yet ultimately a blood-spattered war zone, where no holds are barred in the battle for supremacy. This is Fay Weldon territory and she rules unchallenged, an acknowledged expert at analysing the depths of misery and rage which engulf men and women who are caught up in the suffocating coils of wedlock. Her characters tear emotional chunks out of each other, unable to leave the scene of such devastation, glorying in minor victories over their rivals, yet strangely unsatisfied when these same victories leave them in sole possession of the battlefield. Of such contradictions are marriages made, and none more so than the three-way relationship between Madeleine, Jarvis and Lily in Remember Me. Madeleine is the furious first wife, holed up in a basement flat with her daughter, fat, frumpy Hilary. Meanwhile, ex-husband Jarvis revels in domestic bliss with his tidy new family; his aptly named wife Lily, purveyor of sexual delights, healthy food and clean carpets, and charming new baby Jonathan. Madeleine is incandescent with jealousy - Jarvis is hers and there's no way she's going to let him go. Earlier attempts to break up the happy home have failed; Lily remains smug and secure, while Madeleine howls in frustration at the gates. But Lily's malice may prove to be her undoing. Unable to resist the temptation of giving Hilary a new look, she spirits the unhappy girl out of school and off to the hairdresser, for a less than flattering gamine cut. Madeleine's rage knows no bounds; revenge is on the cards. Lily and Jarvis will live to regret their complacency, their sneering laughter at Madeleine's expense, their delight in her overthrow by a quirk of fate. For Madeleine will have the last laugh, and even though Lily may think she stands unconquered in the field of battle, her enemy still has one last trick up her sleeve. Darkly humorous and utterly compelling, this is Fay Weldon at her malicious best, clinically accurate in her dissection of the human psyche and pointing out yet again that it isn't love that makes the world go round, but that far baser emotion, jealousy. (Kirkus UK)

Madeleine wants revenge: Madeleine wants to be remembered: Madeleine wants love. Who doesn?t? Madeleine is ex-wife of and chief persecutor to Jarvis, the architect. Why not? She hates him. Hilary is their daughter, growing fatter and lumpier every day under Madeleine?s triumphant care, witness to the wrongs her mother suffered.

For Jarvis has a clean new life with a clean new wife, Lily, and a nice new baby, Jonathan. The furniture is polished and there is orange juice for breakfast. Jarvis is content, or thinks he is, fending off Madeleine?s forays as best he can.

Jarvis has a part-time secretary , too, Margot, now the doctor?s wife, unremembered from the days of her youth. Margot, unacknowledged wife and mother, accepting, tending, nurturing his children and her own, complaisant in her lot.

Until Madeleine, hurling out her dark reproaches from the other side of violent death, uncovers new familial links in the disruption she creates.

General

Imprint:	Flamingo
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2003
Authors:	Fay Weldon
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-00-710926-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Promotions
LSN:	0-00-710926-1
Barcode:	9780007109265

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