by Sue Townsend
Eva Beaver - mother of super intelligent teenage twins Brian Jnr and Brianny and wife of astronomer Professor Brian Beaver (also philanderer) - has had enough of everyday life and organising everyone else's life. She wants peace, quiet, rest and avoidance of people's emotional problems. One day she gets into bed fully clothed and doesn't leave for a year. Food is brought to her by her exasperated family and friends, her children disown her, her husband's lover moves in, she gains notoriety, and members of the public start camping out on the pavement outside her house. It all starts to get Eva down and she slowly starts to break down and refuses contact with everybody. It's only the close friendship of a local artist and DIY man which finally saves her in the end.
Humorous, sad, upsetting, truthful - everything you'd expect from a Townsend novel.
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