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Sue Townsend, the bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series, returns with The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year , a funny and touching novel about what happens when someone stops being the person everyone wants them to be.
'Laugh-out-loud . . . a teeming world of characters whose foibles and misunderstandings provide glorious amusement. Something deeper and darker than comedy' Sunday Times
The day her twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she's wanted to yell at the world, 'Stop! I want to get off'. Finally, this is her chance.
Her husband Brian, an astronomer having an unsatisfactory affair, is upset. Who will cook his dinner? Eva, he complains, is attention seeking. But word of Eva's defiance spreads.
Legions of fans, believing she is protesting, gather in the street. While Alexander the white van man brings tea, toast and sympathy. And from this odd but comforting place Eva begins to see both herself and the world very, very differently. . .
Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year is her hilarious new novel.
'She fills the pages with turmoil, anger, passion, love and big helpings of wit. It's full of colour and glows with life' Independent
'Hilarious and totally Townsend. There were parts where I laughed until I cried' Daily Mail
'Touching and hilarious. Bursting with witty social commentary as well as humour' Women's Weekly
'A funny, poignant look at modern family life' Daily Express
Sue Townsend is one of Britain's favourite comic authors. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books, The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55 ) , Number Ten , Ghost Children , The Queen and I , Queen Camilla and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year , all of which are highly-acclaimed bestsellers. Sue passed away in 2014 and is survived by her husband, four children, ten grandchildren and millions of avid readers.
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Sue Townsend, the bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series, returns with The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year , a funny and touching novel about what happens when someone stops being the person everyone wants them to be.
The day her twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she's wanted to yell at the world, 'Stop! I want to get off'. Finally, this is her chance.
Her husband Brian, an astronomer having an unsatisfactory affair, is upset. Who will cook his dinner? Eva, he complains, is attention seeking. But word of Eva's defiance spreads.
Legions of fans, believing she is protesting, gather in the street. While Alexander the white van man brings tea, toast and sympathy. And from this odd but comforting place Eva begins to see both herself and the world very, very differently. . .
Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year is her hilarious new novel.
'Laugh-out-loud . . . a teeming world of characters whose foibles and misunderstandings provide glorious amusement. Something deeper and darker than comedy' Sunday Times
'She fills the pages with turmoil, anger, passion, love and big helpings of wit. It's full of colour and glows with life' Independent
'Hilarious and totally Townsend. There were parts where I laughed until I cried' Daily Mail
'Touching and hilarious. Bursting with witty social commentary as well as humour' Women's Weekly
'A funny, poignant look at modern family life' Daily Express
Author Notes
Sue Townsend was born in Leicester, England on April 2, 1946. She left school at fifteen and worked a series of jobs before becoming a full-time author. She was best known for her books about the neurotic diarist Adrian Mole including The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years, Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years. Her other works include The Queen and I, Number Ten, The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman Aged 55¾, and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year. She died after a stroke on April 10, 2014 at the age of 68.
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Reviews (1)
Guardian Review
Which of us, in a moment of feeling insufficiently cherished or bewildered by the world's demands, has not felt that the most sensible option would be to take to our bed? We might not take matters as far as Eva Beaver, a librarian from Leicester who dispatches her husband to deliver their twin children to university, throws tomato soup over a chair she's spent two years embroidering and then trots upstairs to the comfort of her crisp white sheets. Eva, it quickly becomes apparent, envisages a dismantling of not only her immediate domestic structures but a reappraisal of the 50 years that have brought her to this point. In her bedroom she interrogates her memories and beliefs, attempting to free her thoughts from the received ideas and assumptions that have, it now appears, ensnared her. This is a clever exploration of the immense power someone who decides to halt their story suddenly acquires. And in Eva Beaver's case, once she's opted for a life lying down, what surprises both us and her is not that she's there, but that we haven't all joined her. - Alex Clark Which of us, in a moment of feeling insufficiently cherished or bewildered by the world's demands, has not felt that the most sensible option would be to take to our bed? - Alex Clark.