The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

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Townsend is such a deft stylish comedian and tragedian and this book is funny and heartbreaking in turns The Pool What happens when a duvet day turns into a duvet year? Sue Townsend the bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series returns with The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year a funny and touching novel about what happens when someone stops being the person everyone wants them to be. The day her twins leave home Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years shes wanted to yell at the world Stop! I want to get off. Finally this is her chance. Her husband Brian an astronomer having an unsatisfactory affair is upset. Who will cook his dinner? Eva he complains is attention seeking. But word of Evas defiance spreads. Legions of fans believing she is protesting gather in the street. While Alexander the white van man brings tea toast and sympathy. And from this odd but comforting place Eva begins to see both herself and the world very very differently. . . Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britains favourite comic writer for over three decades The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year is her hilarious new novel. Laugh-out-loud . . . a teeming world of characters whose foibles and misunderstandings provide glorious amusement. Something deeper and darker than comedy Sunday Times She fills the pages with turmoil anger passion love and big helpings of wit. Its full of colour and glows with life Independent Hilarious and totally Townsend. There were parts where I laughed until I cried Daily Mail Touching and hilarious. Bursting with witty social commentary as well as humour Womens Weekly A funny poignant look at modern family life Daily Express