The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend

The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend

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'. Her husband, an astronomer who divides his time between gazing at the expanding universe, an unsatisfactory affair with his colleague and mooching in his shed, is not happy.

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

* from publisher's description *
Proof, once more, that Townsend is one of the funniest writers around * The Times *
Townsend's wit is razor-sharp * Daily Mirror *

Sue Townsend was born in Leicester in 1946. Despite not learning to read until the age of eight, leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications and having three children by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she always found time to read widely. She also wrote secretly for twenty years. After joining a writers' group at The Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, she won a Thames Television award for her first play, Womberang, and became a professional playwright and novelist. After the publication of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue continued to make the nation laugh and prick its conscience. She wrote seven further volumes of Adrian's diaries and five other popular novels - including The Queen and I, Number Ten and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year - and numerous well received plays. Sue passed away in 2014 at the age of sixty-eight. She remains widely regarded as Britain's favourite comic writer.

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ISBN 13	9780718157159
ISBN 10	071815715X
Title	The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year
Author	Sue Townsend
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2012-03-01
Number of pages	448
Prizes	Short-listed for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2012
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.