''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 HarrodsStrange, 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.

Format Häftad Omfång 160 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Penguin Books Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2015-07-02 ISBN 9780241240106