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A feminist parable set in an alternative-universe England in the 1980s, British author Fay Weldon’s (born Franklin Birkinshaw) work of satirical speculative fiction, The Cloning of Joanna May (1989), follows 60-year-old Joanna May as she discovers that her husband Carl, a corrupt nuclear power executive, has secretly arranged for her to be cloned. She sets out to track down her clones, three very different women in their thirties, and together they forge a women-only family so that they can finally have some fun. Includes references to domestic violence.