Cover art for The Pumpkin Eater
Published
Penguin Modern Classics, September 2015
ISBN
9780241240106
Format
Softcover, 160 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 0.9cm

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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.

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