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Fay Weldon’s Supernatural Novel ‘Puffball’ Being Developed For TV 20 Years After Nicolas Roeg Movie Starring Kelly Reilly & Donald Sutherland
#News #BBCStudios #DonaldSutherland #FayWeldon #FirebirdPictures #KellyReilly #Puffball

https://deadline.com/2026/05/fay-weldon-puffball-tv-series-firebird-movie-kelly-reilly-1236906341/

Fay Weldon’s Supernatural Novel ‘Puffball’ Being Developed For TV 20 Years After Nicolas Roeg Movie Starring Kelly Reilly & Donald Sutherland

'Puffball', the Fay Weldon book, is being developed for TV by Firebird Pictures and was made into a film starring Kelly Reilly and Donald Sutherland.

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Mair RigbyJan 5, 2023

I'm not at all well-read in the work of Fay Weldon, but I did love 'Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen'. A couple of her short stories have also stayed with me.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64160732

#fayweldon #RIP

Fay Weldon: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil author dies aged 91

The author and essayist was best known for books including 1983's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil.

BBC News
Jane Rosenberg LaForgeJan 5, 2023
The death of #author #FayWeldon has "prompted immense sadness in a wealth of #writers who enjoyed her vivid company and also felt enormously encouraged by both her warm attentiveness and her example." An appreciation & look into her methods: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/05/fay-weldon-death-novels-women
Fay Weldon: a defiant writer who was thoroughly wised-up

The writer, who has died aged 91, channelled the apocalyptic power of the betrayed and rejected – making her novels immensely liberating

The Guardian
AnneWelshJan 5, 2023

So sad about Fay Weldon. Adding rereads of some of my favourites by her to my #TBR2023

Image: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (novel 1983; TV series 1986) which I remember watching with my Mum as a teenager.

#RIPFayWeldon #FayWeldon #FeministWriters #FavouriteWriters #TheLifeAndLovesOfASheDevil #bookstodon @bookstodon

Lizet KruyffJan 5, 2023
RIP #FayWeldon, I enjoyed her books, her wit so much: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64160732
chillbettyJan 5, 2023

Interesting that media report Fay Weldon as leaving NZ "when a child" when she was in fact aged 15.

Proviso: am very much not one for "claiming" people for New Zealand.

#FayWeldon

sarabeeeJan 4, 2023
#FayWeldon this was painted by Rita Angus, and rejected by the little girls' mother. https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/35931
Bob JamiesonJan 4, 2023

Fay Weldon obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/04/fay-weldon-obituary

#FayWeldon #obituary #novelist #screenwriter

Fay Weldon obituary

Novelist and screenwriter whose tales of women taking control of their own destinies included The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

The Guardian
chillbettyJan 4, 2023

'Fay and Jane Birkinshaw', Rita Angus. Oil on canvas, 1938.

#FayWeldon
#RitaAngus

Jude AldridgeJan 4, 2023
Sorry to hear of the death of #FayWeldon but what an amazing literary legacy