Fay Weldon

She May Not Leave


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      She May Not Leave

      Fay Weldon

      

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Glossing Over Inconvenient Facts

       Child Support

       Martyn And Hattie Have A Tiff

       Men, Women, Art, And Employment

       George And Serena’s Household

       Hattie At Work

       A Good Au Pair And The Promise Of Life After Death

       Preserving The Peace Of The Home

       Dream On

       Martyn Is Alone With Agnieszka

       Another Country

       Agnieszka And Martyn Go Shopping

       Ordinary Women

       Chocolate-Covered Prunes

       Coming Over

       Suspicions

       Frances In Love

       Agnieszka’s Passport

       Animals

       The Christening

       Hurrying Men Away

       The Boss Comes To Dinner

       Cooking Disasters

       Agnieszka And The Internet

       Maternal Panics

       Churchyard Drama

       Mad Plans

       Martyn Confesses

       Hattie At The Cattery

       Hattie Gets Promotion

       Two Weddings And A Funeral

       Martyn And Agnieszka In Bed

       Two More Nights

       Other Books By

       Copyright

       About The Publisher

       Martyn And Hattie Have Employed An Au Pair

      ‘Agnieszka?’ asks Martyn. ‘Isn’t that far too long a name? If she wants to get on in this country she’ll have to shorten it. People are just not familiar with sshzk.’

      ‘But she won’t want to shorten it,’ says Hattie. ‘People have their pride, and a loyalty to the parents who named them.’ ‘If we pay her,’ says Martyn, ‘she may have to do more or less as we ask.’

      

      Martyn is in conversation with Hattie in their economical, comfortable first-time-buyers’ house in London’s Kentish Town. Both are in their early thirties, handsome, healthy and educated, and for reasons of principle not