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"It was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring... except a clot of blood, creeping up from Ted's leg to his brain, to kill him as he slept..." Recently widowed Philly keeps dreaming of her dead husband Ted – strange dreams of a paranormal alternate reality: why is her new husband Robbie so interested in them? He works for a mysterious genetic research company called Portal Inc. But what exactly is Robbie's job? Did he seduce Philly by feeding her experimental new drugs? Was Ted's death intended? Such suspicions make Philly doubt her own sanity.

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.

Alexandra Ludd is an actress playing Nora in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. In the eyes of the world she has everything a woman could want: husband, home, child, income, good looks, good friends, the plaudits of the crowd and the affection of neighbours. But Alexandra inspires envy as well as love: she was unwise to forget it, she was complacent, perhaps a little vain - and all fate has to do to bring her down is to snip a single strand....

It’s 2013, and 80-year-old Frances (has-been writer) is sitting on the stairs of No.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. While she waits for the bailiffs to give up and leave, Frances writes. She writes about the boyfriends she borrowed and the husband she stole from Fay, about her daughters and their children. The problem is that fact and fiction are blurring in Frances’s mind.

Praxis Duveen is a survivor. At five years old, in 1920s England, she is still innocent, the product of an unstable mother and a flighty father who abandoned Praxis and her half-crazy sister, Hypatia. As the decades fly by, Praxis experiences many incarnations. Now, from her dingy basement apartment, where she's attempting to write a memoir, Praxis tells about the story of her remarkable journey - peppered with more than a few detours along the way.

England, 1903. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne and the entire grand estate, with its hundred rooms, is busy planning for a visit from Edward VII and Queen Alexandra just a few months a way. Preparations are elaborate and exhaustive: the menus and fashions must be just so, and so must James, the new heir and son of Arthur Dilberne and Chicago heiress, Minnie O'Brien. But there are problems. Little James is being reared to Lady Isobel's tastes, not Minnie's. And Mrs. O'Brien is visiting from America and causing trouble.

As 1901 comes to an end, there is much to be grateful for: The Dilberne fortune has been restored, and the grand Dilberne Court, with its 100 rooms, has been saved. Lord Robert's son, Arthur, is happily married to Chicago heiress, Minnie, who is pregnant and trying to come to terms with her new role as lady of the manor, and her charming but controlling mother-in-law, Lady Isobel. As Lord Robert and Lady Isobel get caught up in the preparations for the coronation of Edward VII, they debate the future of their recently orphaned niece, Adela.

How to be a reader - how to be a writer. All you need to know. Alice is an 18-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen's to her own niece, 'aunt' Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her correspondence a revealing tribute to a great writer - it is also an original and rewarding exploration of the craft of fiction itself.

Redan som barn förstår Praxis Duveen att livet är svårt. När hennes våldsamma pappa överger familjen och hennes mamma blir intagen på sjukhus, lämnas hon och hennes äldre syster Hypatia plötsligt helt ensamma i världen. När Praxis blir äldre känner hon sig ständigt vilsen och förvirrad. Hennes bekräftelsebehov leder henne genom livets toppar och dalar – hon upplever kärlek, gifter sig och lever i lyx, men tampas också med svåra utmaningar som prostitution och fattigdom.

Isabel Acre har ett bekvämt hem i London, ett gott rykte som journalist och man och barn. Men en dag kommer det förflutna i kapp Isabel: hennes uppväxt på den australiensiska landsbygden, livet på samhällets skuggsida i Washington och Fleet Streets sängar. Allt som Isabel lämnat bakom sig kommer tillbaka. Fay Weldon (född 1931) är en engelsk författare som skriver med stor inlevelse, kärlek och humor om hur det är att vara kvinna. Hon har skrivit flera romaner och noveller men även tv-drama, kulturjournalistik och en självbiografi.

Annette och Spicer har alltid varit det perfekta paret. Tillsammans med sina barn från tidigare äktenskap har de byggt en familj som fullkomligt strålar av lycka, men frågan är om de någonsin har varit lyckligare än när Annette blir gravid. Ett gemensamt barn känns som den sista pusselbiten i deras redan perfekta liv. Men ingenting varar för evigt – särskilt inte lyckan. När Annette inte får sin vanliga avskedskyss innan Spicer går till jobbet, misstänker hon att något inte står rätt till.

Layla, Stephanie, Alice och Nancy är inga små kvinnor. Ur en yr, bacchisk dans föds idén till det feministiska förlaget Medusa. Under 20 år följer vi de olika kvinnorna och deras kamp för frihet, jämlikhet och systerskap i ett sjuttiotalets England. Fay Welson föddes 1931 i England. Hon är en brittisk författare, mest känd för romanen "En hondjävuls liv och lustar"(1984) som också blivit TV-serie och film.

Helen Lally is 22, the stunning daughter of an impoverished artist whose fame and fortune will soon be made. Woe to her for catching the eye of Clifford Wexford, a 35-year-old art dealer, rapaciously ambitious, eminently eligible and careless of all lives but his own. In the space of nine months in the ever-so-swinging '60s, Helen and Clifford meet, fall instantly in love, marry and produce the enchanting Nell. But there the want changes hands, as it will, time and again, in the course of this seductively high-spirited move.

Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact - simply a tall, not terribly attractive woman living a quiet life as a wife and mother in a respectable suburb. But when she discovers that her husband is having a passionate affair with the lovely romantic novelist Mary Fisher, she is so seized by envy that she becomes truly diabolic. Within weeks she has burnt down the family home, collected the insurance, made love to the local drunk and embarked on a course of destruction and revenge.

Walter Matthau stars in the story of a climate scientist trying to balance romance and research. The piece is both serious and surreal as Matthau removes the “fourth wall” while addressing the show’s recording engineer. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bain, Zeljko Ivanek and Valerie Landsburg. Directed by Shaun McLoughlin. Recorded before a live audience in Santa Monica, California, in June 1992.

Scarlet har uppfostrats till att vara tuff och självständig. Men när hon vid tjugo års ålder plötsligt blir ensamstående mamma, kan hon inte låta bli att oroa sig inför framtiden. Som ogift förälder känner hon en skam som ingen av hennes väninnor kan mäta sig med – och då är de ändå långt ifrån perfekta. Helen har både giftermål och skilsmässa i bagaget, Sylvia bär ärr från ett liv som ständigt offer, Jocelyn känner sig instängd i överklassens tråkiga normer och Audrey plågas alltid av det ena problemet efter det andra.

As the Season of 1899 comes to an end, the world is poised on the brink of profound, irrevocable change. The Earl of Dilberne is facing serious financial concerns. The ripple effects spread to everyone in the household: Lord Robert, who has gambled unwisely on the stock market and seeks a place in the Cabinet; his unmarried children, Arthur, who keeps a courtesan, and Rosina, who keeps a parrot in her bedroom; Lord Robert's wife Isobel, who orders the affairs of the household in Belgrave Square; and Grace, the lady's maid who orders the life of her mistress.

When Ruth Pratchett discovers her husband is having a passionate affair with the lovely romantic novelist Mary Fisher, she is so seized by envy she becomes truly diabolic, embarking on a course of destruction which brings those around her their just deserts and herself an amazing reward. This is the fantasy of the wronged woman made real: wild, funny, true.

Annette and Spicer make a perfect pair. But on this, the first day of the rest of their blissful lives, Spicer fails to kiss Annette goodbye, as he leaves for the office. The years of marriage shift and change: the rock of Annette's marriage may be sand.

How many women can you fit into one body? A novel of split personalities. A marriage, its breakdown, and a perforated heroine: one woman, many faces, many personalities, and more emerging: a crumbling house, and the rooms of that house (which in our dreams are aspects of the self). Any more traumas and it’s all over! Sir Edwin Rice has decided to divorce Lady Angelica, ex-rock star. She has behaved intolerably. He petitions the Court to set him free. Angelica fights back.