The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
by Sue Townsend | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0141399643 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0141399643 Global Overview for this book
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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.
But 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'. Her mother Ruby is unsympathetic: 'She'd soon get out of bed if her arse was on fire.'
And, though the world keeps intruding, it is from the confines of her bed that Eva at last begins to understand freedom.
Purchased for the uk 2022 birthday group
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.
But 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'. Her mother Ruby is unsympathetic: 'She'd soon get out of bed if her arse was on fire.'
And, though the world keeps intruding, it is from the confines of her bed that Eva at last begins to understand freedom.
Purchased for the uk 2022 birthday group
Released 1 yr ago (7/29/2022 UTC) at Gateshead, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom
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Journal Entry 3 by kirstykat at Potters Bar, Hertfordshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Thank You 3vie for this wishlist book birthday gift. Very much looking to reading this. And it came with a beautiful bookmark, too!
Journal Entry 4 by kirstykat at Potters Bar, Hertfordshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Thank You 3vie for this wishlist book birthday gift. Very much looking to reading this. And it came with a beautiful bookmark, too!