SOURCE: "After the Devil—A Little Horror," in Times Educational Supplement, No. 4227, July 4, 1997, p. 7.

In the following review, Weldon and Treneman discuss Weldon's children's book, Nobody Likes Me!

Everything has a colour in Nobody Likes Me!, Fay Weldon's book for children. Sleep is brown and red and purple round the edges, a cry is pale blue, a roar black, a yelp white. I wonder, as the author sits on the green and gold sofa at her home in Hampstead, north London, what colour this conversation might be.

She is wearing a black dress and gold slippers and her voice is high and light. At first it seems hard to believe this is the same woman whose nearly 30 books include The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. And then her glance falls on the lighthouse on the back of her new book. "That really is very phallic," she murmurs...