Penelope Mortimer

'Daddy's Gone A-Hunting'

Bog | Engelsk

A breakthrough novel of suburban loneliness and subversion--"her style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel" (Rachel Cooke, The Observer ) A bourgeois housewife, Ruth Whiting, is "paralysed by triviality," measu

'The Pumpkin Eater'

Bog | Engelsk

The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapist's couch, and her smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice imm