Leader of the Band
Book description
Starlady Sandra is a woman devoted to her own desires. Discoverer of the planet Athena, television astronomer and wife to a humourless barrister she finds Jack, the sax player, irresistable. Sandra gives up everything to follow Jack and his caravan of musicians to France.
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Fay Weldon’s novels are plotted like my book Secret Lives of Planets: a sequence of chance and disconnected events which nevertheless form a biography. In this novel, Sandra Harris, known to her TV fans as "Starlady Sandra”, an astronomer (famous for her discovery of the new planet Athena), and a “professional searcher after truth”, leaves her inadequate husband and runs off with her jazz-playing lover to the south of France. She is pursued by her husband, her lover’s wife, and paparazzi. “She’s always seeing things“, her friends say: new planets, her Nazi war-criminal eugenicist father, her insane mother, other…
From Paul's list on with fictional female astronomers.
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