marriage ended. In 1961, aged 29, Weldon met her second husband, Ron Weldon, a jazz musician and antiques dealer. They married in 1963 when Fay was pregnant with her second son Dan (born that same year). They lived in East Compton, Somerset, later having two more sons, Tom (1970) and Sam (1977). It was while she was pregnant with Dan that Weldon began writing for radio and television. The couple visited therapists regularly and in 1992 Ron left Fay for his astrological therapist, who had told him that the couple's astrological signs were incompatible. They began divorce proceedings, although Ron died in 1994, just eight hours before the divorce was finalised. In 1994 Weldon married Nick Fox, a poet who was also her manager, but instigated divorce proceedings in 2020. In 2000 Weldon became a member of the Church of England and was confirmed in St Paul's Cathedral. She stated that she liked to think that she was "converted by St Paul". Weldon died at a care home in Northampton, England, on 4 January 2023, at the age of 91. Weldon was survived by her sons as well as twelve grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Awards Writers' Guild Award for "On Trial", the pilot of the original TV programme Upstairs Downstairs (1973) The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1979) for Praxis Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship (1980) Winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize for The Heart of the Country (1989) Whitbread Prize Best Novel nominee (1996) for Worst Fears PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award (1996) for Wicked Women Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) 2001 Literary works Novels The Fat Woman's Joke (1967) Down Among the Women (1971) Words of Advice (1974) Little Sisters (1975) Female Friends (1975) Remember Me (1976) Praxis (1978) Puffball (1980) The President's Child (1982) The Shrapnel Academy (1986) The Heart of the Country (1987) The Hearts and Lives of Men (1987) Leader of the Band (1988) The Cloning of Joanna May (1989) Darcy's Utopia (1990) Growing Rich (1992) Life Force (1992) Question of Timing (1992) Trouble (1993) Affliction (1994) Splitting (1995) Worst Fears (1996) Big Women (1997) Rhode Island Blues (2000) The Bulgari Connection (2000) Mantrapped (2004) She May Not Leave (2006) The Spa Decameron (2007) The Stepmother's Diary (2008) Chalcot Crescent (2009) Kehua! (2010) Series She Devil The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983) Death of a She