SOURCE: "The Fuzzy Vision of a True Believer," in New York Times, March 3, 1991, p. 9.

In the following review, Krist calls Darcy's Utopia one of Weldon's "most ambitious books," noting that she achieves even her unlikely conclusion "with aplomb."

Some writers chronicle the War Between Men and Women. Fay Weldon, a subtler observer by half, reports on a more elusive conflict—the War Among Men and Women. She understands that the battle lines of this other war seldom run along gender boundaries, but rather cut across the sexes to pit spouses against lovers, first wives against second wives, children against the parents who abandon or torment them. And in more than a score of novels, story collections and plays, she has never let us forget the ruinous consequences of this war—the state of perpetual heartache we call Modern Life.

In her latest novel, Darcy's Utopia, Ms. Weldon introduces...