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"Starlady Sandra" is a popular TV astronomer, famous for discovering the new planet, Athena. At 42, childless, and married to a conventional barrister, Sandra runs off with Mad Jack, trumpet-playing hero of the title, after a single, tempestuous sexual encounter. On a gig in France, Sandra and Jack spend every spare moment in bed — or any approximation — continually "remaking the universe". But over the buzz of sexual gratification, Sandra hears the beat of her biological clock, and reconsiders her origins — her mother is institutionalized for insanity while her father, a Nazi doctor, was tried at Nuremberg and executed for his experiments — and her related decision not to procreate.
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Leader of the Band, Fay Weldon
- Language
- Released
- 1988
- Binding
- (Hardcover),
- Book condition
- Good
- Price
- €9.39
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- Title
- Leader of the Band
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Fay Weldon
- Publisher
- Viking
- Released
- 1988
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0340426667
- ISBN13
- 9780340426661
- Series
- Categories
- Original title
- Leader of the band
- Rating
- 3.25 out of 5
- Description
- "Starlady Sandra" is a popular TV astronomer, famous for discovering the new planet, Athena. At 42, childless, and married to a conventional barrister, Sandra runs off with Mad Jack, trumpet-playing hero of the title, after a single, tempestuous sexual encounter. On a gig in France, Sandra and Jack spend every spare moment in bed — or any approximation — continually "remaking the universe". But over the buzz of sexual gratification, Sandra hears the beat of her biological clock, and reconsiders her origins — her mother is institutionalized for insanity while her father, a Nazi doctor, was tried at Nuremberg and executed for his experiments — and her related decision not to procreate.