The Cloning of Joanna May by Fay Weldon

She’s a queen of words’
CAITLIN MORAN.

Thirty years ago, Joanna May’s husband conducted a terrifying experiment.
The result? Jane, Gina, Julie, and Alice; his wife Joanna, replicated four
times. And all of them, Joanna included, are suffering at the hands of the
men in their lives…

Now in her ninth decade, Fay Weldon is one of the foremost chroniclers of
our time, a novelist who spoke to an entire generation of women by daring to
say the things that no one else would. Her work ranges over novels, short
stories, children’s books, nonfiction, journalism, television, radio, and the
stage. She was awarded a CBE in 2001.