Fay Weldon – Neptune leads to marital shipwrecks

Getting a divorce at 91 may appear bizarre but is a strangely fitting epitaph for novelist Fay Weldon’s haunted history in the marital stakes. Her best known novel turned into a successful film The Life and Loves of a She-Devil is a tale of relentless and sadistic vengeance against a cheating husband and his mistress. Though she insisted it was really a tale of envy.
 Born 22 September 1931 5.50pm Alvechurch, England, with a philandering father who was abandoned and a wayward mother,