Ten high achieving ladies are gathered together in the week between
Christmas and the New Year, at the expensive Castle Spa, seeking,
through Botox, aromatherapy and general all round pampering, a new
beginning to their lives. The Ladies lounge around in the Jacuzzi,
drinking champagne and eating chocolate telling each other the
stories of their lives. Starting with the Trophy wife's tale: her
spell in a Greek prison has left her in serious need of a makeover;
the Brain Surgeon's tale: of twins and mistaken identity; the
Judge's tale: of the sex change which allowed him to judge the
pleasures of the bedchamber from both male and female perspectives.
The manicurist, the public speaker, the journalist, the company
director, the ex vicar's wife, the screenwriter, all share their
stories, ending with the stepmother's tale, a reversal of
Cinderella's fate, with the stepmother as victim...Sparkling,
witty, always compassionate and occasionally libidinous, Fay
Weldon's new novel recalls Boccaccio's late medieval masterwork,
The Decameron. Boccaccio dedicated his book to the ladies of his
time, who were forced to hide their amorous passions under a veil
of discretion, while men were free to indulge theirs.
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