SplittingA marriage its breakdown and a perforated heroine: one woman, many faces, many personalities and more emerging .. Witty, sexy and funny, Fay Weldon uses a sharp but healing laser to re lay out notions of love, marriage and the self. A marriage, its breakdown, and a perforated heroine: one woman, many faces, many personalities, and more emerging: a crumbling house, and the rooms of that house (which in our dreams are aspects of the self). Any more