English novelist, screenwriter and playwright Fay Weldon (b. 1931) is the author of more than twenty novels, several books for children, numerous plays for television, radio and the stage, and countless magazine articles. In the psychologically action-packed novel “Worst Fears” (1996), the most prosperous of women - a talented actress, beloved wife, happy mother Alexandra Ludd suddenly becomes a widow, and then it turns out that her husband cheated on her and, moreover, was a bigamist, which means her marriage was illegal; that he left her without a livelihood; that the theater quickly found a replacement for her... Her grief and all her memories are desecrated, but she finds the strength to start life over again.