TY - BOOK AU - Weldon, Fay, TI - Before the war SN - 1784082066 AV - PR6073.E374 B4 2016 U1 - 923/.914 23 KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Fiction KW - Single women KW - London (England) N2 - Consider Vivien in November 1922. She is twenty four, and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and - worse - intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as 'the giantess'. Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic London publisher to marry her ER -