Fay Weldon is sometimes called a modern Jane Austen. Continuing the classic tradition of women's novels, Weldon entered literature in the mid-60s and since then, in addition to plays and scripts, has published about thirty books (“The Life and Love of a She-Devil,” “The Bulgary Necklace,” “Vitality,” etc. ), many of which have been filmed. “Rhode Island Blues” is a story, built in a blues style, of two representatives of the same family, each of whom remembers her own tragedy. The eccentric beauty Felicity, even having passed eighty, has not lost either her frivolity or her charm. Her youth occurred in an era of moral and material dependence on male power, on the marriage contract, and on social prejudices. Her granddaughter Sofia is the complete opposite of her: she is an independent and free modern woman, an editor at one of the London film studios. The family attachment between them is very conditional - since childhood, Sofia cannot forgive Felicity for leaving her in difficult times, flying overseas to her next husband. But chance changes everything: the wheel of fortune spins, family secrets are revealed, love, excitement, risk and hope come into play...* * *Fay Weldon in English women's prose is a star of the first magnitude. Plays, scripts (including the famous series based on Jane Austen’s book “Pride and Prejudice”) and almost thirty novels brought her fame as a recognized master of modern fiction. “Rhode Island Blues” is truly a blues romance, an intense dialogue between two women. And at the same time - a vivid fantasy on the theme of “last chance”, which is possible at any age.