Penelope Mortimer
Praise for The Pumpkin Eater
Beautiful ... almost every woman I can think of will want to read this book
Edna O'Brien
A strange, fresh, gripping book. One of the the many achievements of The Pumpkin Eater is that it somehow manages to find universal truths in what was hardly an archetypal situation: Mortimer peels several la ...
Nick Hornby
Mortimer's style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel ... Will Penguin's new edition of The Pumpkin Eater encourage people to look again at Mortimer? I hope so. She is so good. I can't ...
Rachel Cooke, The Observer
Beautiful ... almost every woman I can think of will want to read this book
Edna O'Brien
A strange, fresh, gripping book. One of the the many achievements of The Pumpkin Eater is that it somehow manages to find universal truths in what was hardly an archetypal situation: Mortimer peels several la ...
Nick Hornby
Mortimer's style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel ... Will Penguin's new edition of The Pumpkin Eater encourage people to look again at Mortimer? I hope so. She is so good. I can't ...
Rachel Cooke, The Observer
Beautiful ... almost every woman I can think of will want to read this book
Edna O'Brien
A strange, fresh, gripping book. One of the the many achievements of The Pumpkin Eater is that it somehow manages to find universal truths in what was hardly an archetypal situation: Mortimer peels several la ...
Nick Hornby
Mortimer's style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel ... Will Penguin's new edition of The Pumpkin Eater encourage people to look again at Mortimer? I hope so. She is so good. I can't ...
Rachel Cooke, The Observer
