![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There's also Dory's daughter, Willa, who undergoes a compelling transformation as she falls in love and lust for the first time. There's Leanne, the beautiful and polygamous (at least until the spell strikes) school psychologist and Bev, the overweight guidance counsellor whose husband cruelly tells her that she's "really let herself go". It's her shock that strikes the hardest, but the novel's other women are just as vividly and sympathetically drawn. As rehearsals begin, so too does "the enchantment": abruptly, completely, the women of Stellar Plains lose their desire for sex, and not even Dory is exempt. The novel opens with a new school term, and with it the arrival of Fran Heller, a fierce and fearless drama teacher who raises eyebrows by announcing that the school play will be Lysistrata, Aristophanes's comedy about women staging a sex strike. ![]() Meg Wolitzer spends pages of her ninth novel lovingly emphasising their conviction that, come what may, "Warmly, hotly, tirelessly, in their own bed they would stay." Naturally, they're proved wrong. Their colleagues envy their marriage for its "stability and reciprocity, the lack of sexism, the love and the passion" – but mostly for the passion. R obby and Dory Lang are so popular with the students at their suburban New Jersey high school that they pass the "Teacher of the Year" title between them year after year. ![]()
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