The Pumpkin Eater
- ISBN-10
- 0241240107
- ISBN-13
- 9780241240106
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-07-02
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Author
- Penelope Mortimer
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.
