The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
Written by Sue Townsend
Narrated by Caroline Quentin
4/5
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About this audiobook
What happens when a duvet day turns into a duvet year?
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. . .
‘Hilarious and totally Townsend. There were parts where I laughed until I cried' Daily Mail
'Laugh-out-loud . . . a teeming world of characters whose foibles and misunderstandings provide glorious amusement. Something deeper and darker than comedy' Sunday Times
‘Full of colour and glows with life' Independent
'Touching and hilarious. Bursting with witty social commentary as well as humour' Women's Weekly
'A funny, poignant look at modern family life' Daily Express
Sue Townsend
Sue Townsend was born in Leicester, England, in 1946. Despite not learning to read until the age of eight, leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications, and having three children by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she managed to be very well read. Townsend wrote secretly for twenty years, and after joining a writers’ group at the Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, she won a Thames Television Award for her first play, Womberang, and became a professional playwright and novelist. Following the publication of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, she continued to make the nation laugh and prick its conscience with seven more volumes of Adrian’s diaries, five popular novels—including The Queen and I, Number Ten, and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year—and numerous well-received plays. Townsend passed away in 2014 at the age of sixty-eight, and remains widely regarded as Britain’s favorite comic writer.
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Reviews for The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
18 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The narrator ? could not make it past the first paragraph
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Sue Townsend must have done something irksome to someone important in audio production. This is the second of her books (the other being Queen Camilla) I was forced to abandon rather quickly because of ghastly narration.
This narrator is hyper-enthusistic and over-inflective. The book isn't narrated so much as broadcasted by someone whose talent is more than ideally suited to an audience of preschoolers. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Enjoyed most of the book but the ending was a let down.