Auto da Fay is an autobiography from a wickedly funny writer who never
fails to amuse. Fay Weldon, one of England's best selling and most
celebrated authors, looks back on her life as wife, lover, playwright,
novelist, feminist, antifeminist, and bon vivant in this frank and funny
memoir. Born Franklin Birkinshaw in 1931, Fay spent her youth in New
Zealand with her sister, mother, and grandmother before moving to
England. Later Fay had to scrape by as an unwed mother in London, trying
marriage, then advertising, and then writing on her own. She closes her
memoir as she drops what will be her first success, a television play,
into a mailbox on her way to the hospital to give birth. Riddled with
Weldon's customarily fierce opinions, this frank and absorbing memoir is
vintage Fay. An icon to many, a thorn in the flesh to others, she has
never failed to excite, madden, or interest. With this engaging
autobiography, she has finally decided to turn her authorial wit and
keen eye on herself.