SOURCE: "The Life Force Has a Headache," in New York Times, April 26, 1992, p. 11.

In the following review, Malone favorably evaluates Life Force and Moon over Minneapolis.

Fay Weldon is a satirist who casts a kind eye on the human comedy as she passes by. And she passes by at a brisk pace. In a distinguished body of work (16 novels, as well as short-story collections, plays, television dramas and several volumes of nonfiction), she has proved to be a shrewd spectator of manners and mores, both upstairs and downstairs (she wrote episodes of the Masterpiece Theater series). In her fiction, the cast of characters moves easily between public and private stages, from posh gatherings and day-care centers to the intimacies of bedrooms. Like so many of her fellow ironists—Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark come to mind—Ms. Weldon can lay waste the pretensions of a decade in the...