This is an auction for THE WOMAN WHO WENT TO BED FOR A YEAR by Sue Townsend.

'She fills the pages with turmoil, anger, passion, love and big helpings of wit. It's full of colour and glows with life.'

• Independent

'Hilarious and totally Townsend. There were parts where I laughed until I cried.'

• Daily Mail

'A funny, poignant look at modern family life.'

• Daily Express

'Laugh-out-loud... a teeming world of characters whose foibles and misunderstandings provide glorious amusement. Something deeper and darker than comedy.'

• Sunday Times (UK)

Amazon.com review:

"Sue Townsend, the bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series, returns with The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year, a funny and touching novel about what happens when someone stops being the person everyone wants them to be. The day her twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she's wanted to yell at the world, 'Stop! I want to get off'. Finally, this is her chance. Her husband Brian, an astronomer having an unsatisfactory affair, is upset. Who will cook his dinner? Eva, he complains, is attention seeking. But word of Eva's defiance spreads. Legions of fans, believing she is protesting, gather in the street. While Alexander the white van man brings tea, toast and sympathy. And from this odd but comforting place Eva begins to see both herself and the world very, very differently..."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books.

Very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Large format (trade) paperback 2012.

652 pages.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $4.95, or $6.95 by tracked mail. If you are on rural delivery and want tracked mail, the shipping cost will be $9.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.