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Among the most prolific, most wide-ranging and best-read of contemporary novelists, Fay Weldon is also one of the most controversial. A feminist who now argues that men are the oppressed sex, a writer of psychological insight who has declared war on therapy, Fay Weldon has only one predictable characteristic: her unpredictability. Fay Weldon will read from her latest novel, Chalcot Crescent - the story of Fay's never-born younger sister, Frances. Prophetic, clever and insightful, this is a story for our times and our future, told with effortless wit and imagination by one of Britain's finest novelists. Fay will also present The Virginia Prize, 2009, a new literary prize for female novelists from Aurora Metro, sponsored by ea Consulting Group. In association with Aurora Metro.