Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year (The) / Sue Townsend
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Edité par Penguin books | 2012
The day her gifted twins leave home for university, 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. Perhaps she will be able to think.Her husband Dr Brian Beaver, an astronomer who divides his time between gazing at the expanding universe, an unsatisfactory eight-year-old affair with his colleague Titania and mooching in his shed, is not happy. Who will cook dinner? Eva, he complains, is either having a breakdown or taking attention-seeking to new heights.But word of Eva's refusal to get out of bed quickly spreads.Alexander the dreadlocked white-van man arrives to help Eva dispose of all her clothes and possessions and bring her tea and toast. Legions of fans are writing to her or gathering in the street to catch a glimpse of this 'angel'. Her mother Ruby is unsympathetic: 'She'd soon get out of bed if her arse was on fire.'And, though the world keeps intruding, it is from the confines of her bed that Eva at last begins to understand freedom.
Eva a un mari astronome (et infidèle) et deux enfants surdoués à qui elle consacre son temps, son énergie et le reste depuis dix-sept ans. Dix-sept années passées à cuisiner, à faire des machines, à jardiner et à changer les rouleaux de papier toilette, à charger les courses dans le coffre de sa voiture et à les transférer sur les étagères (trop hautes) de sa cuisine. Le jour où ses deux enfants quittent la maison pour entrer à l'université, Eva se met au lit et elle y reste. Ni les injonctions empotées de son époux, ni celles plus costaudes de sa mère ou de sa belle-mère ne l'en feront sortir.
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