"...While Lucy fights to protect her place in the heart of her children's father—not her husband—and in the eyes of a society not her choosing, Hypatia collects awards in school and Praxis propels herself into life and love...Fay Weldon pulls no punches in her pointed and witty observations of British middle-class values and behavior as she creates a discomfitingly believable picture of an ordinary woman in a society that does not value women."
"...While Lucy fights to protect her place in the heart of her children's father—not her husband—and in the eyes of a society not her choosing, Hypatia collects awards in school and Praxis propels herself into life and love...Fay Weldon pulls no punches in her pointed and witty observations of British middle-class values and behavior as she creates a discomfitingly believable picture of an ordinary woman in a society that does not value women."
(J.L., p. 204)