The Fat Woman’s Joke ~ by: Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon’s first novel, a sharp and witty parable of the way people see themselves.

For several weeks, Esther Sussman had lived in a sordid flat in Earls Court. During the day she read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate. She had not felt so secure since she spent her days in a pram. It had been her husband’s idea that they should go on a diet. Together they would…