Women's Fiction

Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert''s Eat, Pray, Love and ''yummy mummy'' novels such as Allison Pearson''s I Don''t Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of popular women''s fiction from 1945 to the present.

Examining key trends in popular writing for women in each decade, Women''s Fiction offers case study readings of major Briti...