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A review by cecilie_who_reads
Mænds liv og hjerter by Fay Weldon
5.0
This book is hilarious. Not with a dry and bleak sarcasm like most of Fay Weldon's humour, but with a cornucopia of improbable coincidences, a heroin who is just more beautiful and talented than any other girl around her, and a villain who is just simply bad ... bad, greedy, and horny.
I have heard that Fay Weldon really wanted to end her books badly, but was told to make hopeful endings so that they would sell. I don't know if that is true, but if it was, this could be her way of writing demonstratively unrealistic and happy endings.
A bit like "Der König reitender Bote", the royal messenger in the end of Brecht and Weill's Three Penny Opera.
It is so funny, AND at the same time I just allowed myself to be happy that the good people were rewarded and the bad people had their coming-up.
I have heard that Fay Weldon really wanted to end her books badly, but was told to make hopeful endings so that they would sell. I don't know if that is true, but if it was, this could be her way of writing demonstratively unrealistic and happy endings.
A bit like "Der König reitender Bote", the royal messenger in the end of Brecht and Weill's Three Penny Opera.
It is so funny, AND at the same time I just allowed myself to be happy that the good people were rewarded and the bad people had their coming-up.