1300 187 187 Lady Oracle - Margaret Atwood   Published: 10th
January 1996 In Stock. Usually ships in 1-2 business days RRP
$19.99   Joan Foster got really fat to spite her mother, an
impatient slim lady who was ashamed of her clumsy daughter. Joan
only manages to regain an acceptable shape when a beloved aunt
leaves her a substantial sum of money providing she loses 100
lbs. But when Joan changes shape she loses the identity that she
has grown up with. The rest of her curious unconventional
adventures are all part of her search to find her real self. To
this end she changes - the colour of her hair from flaming red
to mud brown; countries, from Canada to England to Italy; and
boyfriends, from a right-wing Polish count to a left-wing
revolutionary. She writes Gothic costume dramas under the name
of Laura K Delacourt - then reverts to her own name for the
publication of a book of serious poetry which, she assures an
astonished interviewer, was dictated to her by spirit voices. In
order to achieve a final metamo