From the internationally bestselling author of The Hearts and Lives of Men and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil comes a novel that asks a provocative question: If you ruled the world, what would you do? Eleanor Darcy has come up in the world. With her second husband in prison for financial crimes against the nation, she is a media sensation. A self-professed "feminist of the socialist variety," Eleanor grants an exclusive interview to Hugh Vansitart and Valerie Jones, a pair of ambitious journalists. Her vision of the future includes the abolition of money and society-approved procreation, a world in which "all men will believe in God and be capable of love." During the course of their interviews, Hugh and Valerie succumb to some erotic impulses of their own, while Eleanor goes on to become patron saint of the Darcian Movement. From the storyteller who is constantly measuring the moral pulse of men and women, Darcy's Utopia is an uproarious and subversive riff on the age-old battle of the sexes.
"A wickedly funny, multilayered treatise on feminism, marriage, sex, journalism, and the class system."
People
"Some writers chronicle the War Between Men and Women. Fay Weldon, a subtler observer by half, reports on a more elusive conflict-the War Among Men and Women . . . And in this, one of her most ambitious books, [Weldon] tells it without flinching, reminding us that as long as there are mortals on this earth, the supply of fools will never run out."
