THE PUMPKIN EATER

By Penelope Mortimer

Synopsis

In this semi-autobiographical novel, Penelope Mortimer depicts a married woman's breakdown in 1960s London. It 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.

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Narrator Judy Le Besque
Length 5hrs
Catalogue No. 10964
Publisher Penguin Classics; 2015