The Pumpkin Eater
£10.99
by Mortimer, Penelope | Fiction
Published 02/07/2015 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the Penguin Modern Classics series
Paperback | 160 pages
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Description
‘Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater Had a wife and couldn’t keep her…’
In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel, Penelope Mortimer depicts a married woman’s breakdown in 1960s London. With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a numberless army of children, Mrs Armitage is astonished to find herself collapsing one day in Harrods.
Strange, unsettling and shot through with black comedy, this is a moving account of one woman’s realisation that marriage and family life may not, after all, offer all the answers to the problems of living.
Additional information
| Weight | 124 g |
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| Dimensions | 194 × 125 × 10 mm |
