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Chalcot Crescent by Fay Weldon is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Fay Weldon in top a wickedly sharp, history-bending, cosmos-colliding novel that tells the story of Frances, Fay's never-born younger sister. Its 2013 and eighty-year-old Frances (part-time copywriter, has-been writer, one-time national treasure) is sitting on the stairs of Number 3, Chalcot Crescent, Primrose Hill, listening to the debt collectors pounding on her front door. From this house she's witnessed five decades of world history - the fall of communism, the death of capitalism - and now, with the bailiffs, world history has finally reached her doorstep. While she waits for the bailiffs to give up and leave, Frances writes (not that she has an agent any more, or that her books are still published, or even that there are any publishers left). She writes about the boyfriends she borrowed and the husband she stole from Fay, about her daughters and their children. She writes about the Shock, the Crunch, the Squeeze, the Recovery, the Fall, the Crisis and the Bite, about NUG the National Unity Government, about ration books, powercuts, National Meat Loaf (suitable for vegetarians) and the new Neighbourhood Watch. She writes about family secrets...The problem is that fact and fict

Who reads Chalcot Crescent?

Author

Fay Weldon

Publisher

Corvus; Atlantic Books, Limited

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781848872684

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.27 / 5 (208 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13