Zoe Fairbairns

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  • Bibliography:
    5 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1983
  • Latest Book:
    December 1995
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Zoe Fairbairns a British novelist, born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, educated at St Andrews University, Scotland. Fairbairns read history at university, and a historian's sensibility may be detected in her preference for a large canvas which crosses time and place to intertwine the experiences of women from different generations and backgrounds. Fairbairns specializes in reworking popular genre from a feminist perspective. In her futuristic dystopia Benefits (1979), feminist revolution is suppressed by a government bent on returning women to their reproductive role. Stand We at Last (1983) adapts the family saga to encompass a century of women's struggles for emancipation. Here Today (1984) takes the crime thriller into the workaday world of the office ‘temp’; Closing (1987) turns an ironic lens on the ‘Superwomen’ of blockbuster fiction; while Daddy's Girls (1991) examines three sisters' teenage years during three political periods. Her novels are notable for their capacity to make current feminist debates accessible to a wide audience. Her short stories have appeared in Tales I Tell My Mother (1978), by Fairbairns et al., and More Tales I Tell My Mother (1987).



Book List in Order: 5 titles

  • Benefits

    It is summer... a heat wave... tense, uneasy days in the city. There are ominous signs of political turbulence in the dying years of the twentieth century. Welfare benefits are under attack, but women are fighting back, using unorthodox weapons. Lynn...

  • Stand We at Last

    Sarah & Helena. Sisters in the year 1855. For Helena the future was marriage to a wealthy manufacturer of military suppliers, childless and shot through with pain. For Sarah, a new continent beckoned from the other side fo the world. The long voyage ...

  • Here Today

  • Closing

    The lives of four women are dramatically changed when they sign up for the START-selling training organization and find their controlled lives, their ideals, and their notions of romance turned upside down...

  • Daddy's Girls

    Three decades of great change...Three daughters in a crucible of family ferment... A family saga spanning three decades. It covers the lives of three sisters, growing up in a marriage where the father is violent and unfaithful, and the mother cov...



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Zoe Fairbairns has published 5 books.

Zoe Fairbairns does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Daddy's Girls, was published in December 1995.

The first book by Zoe Fairbairns, Benefits, was published in April 1983.

No. Zoe Fairbairns does not write books in series.
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