The Ted Dreams (19 page)

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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.

The newly widowed Cynara dreams vividly of her dead husband every night. And these are strange dreams – paranormal dreams – she is lucky, really, that her new husband Robbie is intrigued by spasms of telepathy.

Robbie works for mysterious research company Portal Inc. What exactly is his job? Of course, no-one’s saying Robbie seduced Cynara by feeding her experimental new drugs. And no-one’s saying Ted was bumped off on purpose... But there’s something about this relationship that doesn’t quite ring true.

Witty, insightful, scary and surreal, this is Fay Weldon at her best.

‘If you want to know about the man-woman thing, read Fay Weldon.’
New York Times

‘Weldon reinstates irony to its rightful high place in literature.’
John Irving

‘To read Fay Weldon is like drinking champagne.’
The Times

‘Fay Weldon is a national treasure.’
Literary Review

‘Wickedly stylish. Bursting with intelligence and fire.’
Daily Telegraph

‘Prolific and provocative, Weldon shines brightest in the league table of British women novelists.’
Time Out

‘One of the great lionesses of modern English literature.’
Harper’s Bazaar

‘A sparkling river of wit.’
Mail on Sunday

‘Readable, articulate and fascinating.’
Scotsman

‘Witty and highly entertaining.’
The Times

‘Wise, knowing, forthright.’
Independent

‘Outrageously funny.’
Daily Express

‘Funny, absolutely hypnotic... heartwarming.’
Irish Press

‘Fay Weldon’s novels are sharp as needles.’
Daily Mail

‘Fay Weldon’s voice is as unmistakable as her acerbic wit.’
Financial Times

‘The social and sexual soothsayer of our literary times.’
Company

‘Weldon’s writing is seductively readable.’
Times Literary Supplement

‘When she’s on form – marshalling those elegant, deadly, sentences – there’s simply no touching Weldon as a writer.’
Observer

‘Intoxicating.’
Spectator

F
AY
W
ELDON
is one of the foremost chroniclers of our time, a novelist who spoke to an entire generation of women by daring to say the things that no one else would. Her work ranges over novels, short stories, children’s books, nonfiction, journalism, television, radio, and the stage. She was awarded a CBE in 2001. She has seven sons and stepsons and one stepdaughter, and lives on a hill in the west of England.

To find out more about Fay Weldon, visit her website,
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