Moon Over Minneapolis

In this superlative anthology, Fay Weldon introduces readers to a cast of mothers, children, wives, and lovers – all of them unforgettable, timeless female characters. In ''Subject to Diary,'' a successful forty-ish career woman sits in an abortion clinic pondering motherhood.

In ''The Year of the Green Pudding,'' a woman who seems to doom everyone and everything she touches vows never to fall in ...