The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer 1964 Penguin Classics Vintage Paperback

The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer 1964 Penguin Classics Vintage PaperbackPre-owned condition: some wear and fading from use and age - pages and covers intact. See photos for detail.Please message if you have any queries. Recycled packaging used wherever possible.blurb: '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 Artimage is astonished to find herself collapsing one day in Harrods. This strange, unsettling novel, shot through with black comedy, 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.