The Pumpkin Eater (Paperback)

from lauralkeet

In this autobiographical novel, a woman struggles with depression and fights to find her sense of purpose while dealing with a bad marriage and a philandering husband. Mrs. Armitage has several children from multiple marriages and is now married to Jake, a screenwriter. She has no real friends; l...

from aethercowboy

The Pumpkin Eater is a story loosely based on the life of Penelope Mortimer, though fictionalized and hyperbolized in some ways. A woman with too many children (more than is ever made clear in the prose) is stuck between her desire to have more children and to not fall out of love with her fourth...

from starbox

"I know there's an awful lot of us..." By sally tarbox on 5 May 2018 Format: Kindle Edition On her fourth marriage - to an increasingly successful but philandering screenwriter - the narrator is mother to a large number of children from her marriages, and is starting to crack up. This is no norma...

from

I suspect this would have been a powerful book when it was first written, and it's a fast read, but I have to admit that I wanted more from it. Though there were parts that I found really engaging and worthwhile, it felt like style and intention overtook any real depth in story or character, both...

from NancyKay_Shapiro

Amazing how I'm nothing at all like this book's nameless narrator or its doppelgänger author, Penelope Mortimer, and yet I identified with it through and through. What a tour de force of the inner life, so wrenching, so funny, so readable. I got through it in a day, in one compulsive gulp. Marvel...