The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year

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For over thirty years, after the publication of her instant and iconic bestseller The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ in 1982, she made us weep with laughter and pricked the nation's conscience. In this book, Eva's twin children, autistic brilliants who never relate to anyone else, have left for university, and Eva decides to retire to her bed.

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The slightly autistic twins, Brian Junior and Brianne, were the math-wizkid-wonders, who triggered mom's bed rest after they left for university. And then right at the end, we find out, in one paragraph, the one interesting and tragic thing that ever happened to her. The books have been adapted for radio, television and theatre; the first being broadcast on radio in 1982.As she tells the bemused Brian: “I haven’t used my brain for so long the poor thing is huddled in a corner waiting to be fed.

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Despite an impressive back catalogue of classics, with regret, Townsend should have stayed in bed herself instead of writing this book. She didn’t mean that she was going to sleep for 24 hours a day, but that she was going to stay in her bed and not leave her house for an entire year. And, in a rather more welcome but equally complicated development, Eva meets Alexander, a dreadlocked painter and odd-job man who turned his back on a career as a "wanker banker" after writing off a high-performance car and killing his wife in the process.

fazer qualquer coisa que a demova do enervante torpor em que se encontra, mas o facto é que, Eva Beaver se entregou a um estado de pura rejeição passiva: está segura do que não quer, mas não se lhe afiguram alternativas de mudança. Nagyon ritkán hagyok félbe könyvet, általában akkor sem "direkt", hanem egy idő után elfogadom a tényt, hogy ha már X ideje nem nyúltam hozzá, valószínűleg már nem is fogok. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page. After spending her entire married life caring for her astronomer husband Brian and their gifted but odd twins, 50-year-old Eva decides she’s had enough of being taken for granted and takes to her bed to think.