Also I like that it's so deeply rooted in place. The end credits list the cast not by seniority or appearance, but by location: the fictional Somerset village of Eddon Gurney, the very real places of Wells and Glastonbury. A carnival float on the back of a lorry as well as the Mendip transmitter's outpourings of traffic news and chatter thread themselves through the narrative. #FayWeldon

I didn't imagine the 1987 BBC version of Fay Weldon's Heart of the Country. Amazingly, as well as Susan Penhaligon, it had CHRISTIAN BALE, MANDY RICE-DAVIES and KEN CAMPBELL in it. This feels like a literary pub quiz question. I hope BBC Four repeat it, but I expect it'll just be She-Devil if anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjwY0yzxkh4
#FayWeldon #bookstodon #books

Sad news about Fay Weldon - I had a soft spot for The Heart of the Country, the book and the BBC adaptation with its repeated images of the Mendip TV transmitter. Though it doesn't seem to exist on IMDB, so maybe I imagined the adaptation.
#FayWeldon #bookstodon #books

[1982] Good Afternoon - Mavis Nicholson interviews Fay Weldon (R.I.P.) the author, essayist and playwright.

https://youtu.be/WkB-EJXdyjw

#OldBritishTelly #FayWeldon

@Kayray I love your list!
Here are a few of mine:
#JulianBarnes
#AliceMunro
#FayWeldon
#EsiEdugyan
#MarthaGellhorn
#AravindAdiga
#ToniMorrison

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