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The Pumpkin Eater (Hardcover)

by Penelope Mortimer (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 185 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; New edition edition (23 Feb 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747518874
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747518877
  • Product Dimensions: 15 x 10.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 183,585 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The unnamed narrator of this story is married to her fourth and excessively well-paid husband. This income only serves to highlight the emptiness of a life led by a woman deprived of the domestic trappings that have defined her.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Film: Amazing Book: read it at your book club, 13 Aug 2007
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Last night I saw the Anne Bancroft adaptation of this fantastic book, that I had to buy straight away. Sadly to say, not many copies in the shop. But plenty online at a very good price. This is such a wonderful heart wrenching tale of a wife, trying to cope with a cheeting husband. "one of those novels which seem to be written with real knowledge of the brink of the abyss, taut almost beyond endurance " Julian Mitchell, Sunday Times, and I absolutely agree. So good to read excellent books written by women. When you buy on market place ask the seller which front cover you will get, just in case you want a particular edition.
My Friend Says It's Bullet-proof by Penelope Mortimer
About Time: An Aspect of Autobiography by Penelope Mortimer and part two of her autobiography About Time Too: 1940-78 by Penelope Mortimer I had to buy these also, and they are amazing!!!! Highly recommended for summer reads and book clubs.
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4.0 out of 5 stars the pumkin eater, 6 Jul 2009
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For so long Penelope Mortimer has been overshadowed by her husband the writer John Mortimer. If you have not read her books make a start. In The Pumpkin Eater she perfectly captures the atmosphere of 1960's London and the liberated artistic middle class. Having read the Pumpkin Eater I moved on to Daddy's Gone a Hunting, what a pleasure both these books were and so different from today's 'chic lit.'
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