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From the witty and mischievous mind of Fay Weldon comes this delectable account of family life as we live it now.

The last instalment in Dilberne sequence: following one family through the twentieth century.

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How many parents does it take to make a baby? In the case of Rosalind Melrose Smithson it took four: one birth mother; one legal father; one interfering neighbour and one turkey baster filled with the defrosted essence of an anonymous donor.

Or not so anonymous as it turned out. For donor no. 116349, ´6ft 1in, blue eyes, blond hair, BA (Oxon), action man...´ is the 9th Earl of Dilberne, who gave his seed back in 1979 as a stripling of twenty-two, and has now conceived a daughter - unknowingly - at the riper age of forty-two.

As they say, the truth will out. And what will our Rozzie do when she finds out about her patrimony? All we know is that as a true Millennial, she will not take it lying down...

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´Jumping now into the bright new female light of the 21st century´ Somerset Life .

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Weldon, Fay
After hard times and odd jobs as a lone parent, Fay Weldon became one of the top advertising copywriters of her generation. She moved to TV drama (writing the pilot episode of the iconic series Upstairs Downstairs ) then turned to novels - including the classic The Life and Loves of a She Devil and The Cloning of Joanna May . Fay´s sequence of novels about the Dilberne family, which encompasses her Love and Inheritance trilogy and Before the War , draws to a close with this final instalment, After the Peace . Fay´s been made a CBE for services to literature and she´s currently a Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

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