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The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

Townsend, Sue  more...
   

Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Audience: General/trade
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Michael Joseph Ltd
Publication Date: 1/03/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom





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The day her gifted twins leave home for university, 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. Perhaps she will be able to think.

Her husband Dr Brian Beaver, an astronomer who divides his time between gazing at the expanding universe, an unsatisfactory eight year old affair with his colleague Titania and mooching in his shed, is not happy. Who will cook dinner? Eva, he complains, is either having a breakdown or taking attention seeking to new heights.

Word of Eva's refusal to get out of bed quickly spreads.

Alexander the dreadlocked white van man arrives to help Eva dispose of all her clothes and possessions and bring her tea and toast. Legions of fans are writing to her or gathering in the street to catch a glimpse of this 'angel'.
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