Penelope Mortimer - Böcker

'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 ...

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... marvellous skill - a writer who can knock spots off most of her contemporaries. - The Guardian A tragi-comedy published in 1971 that looks at the experience of a woman escaping a broken marriage and trying to make a new home for grown-up child...

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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 Mortimer is astonished to find he...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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Ruth Whiting, 37, müsste eigentlich glücklich sein. Sie lebt imidyllischen Londoner Umland, hat drei gesunde Kinder, und ihrZahnarztgatte kommt an den meisten Wochenenden heim. In Wahrheitlangweilt sie sich zu Tode, ihr Leben ist eine endlose An...

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