The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year

A masterly comic novel deconstructing modern family life; on the day her children leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. She's had enough, and her refusal to behave like a dutiful wife and mother upsets everyone from Brian, her husband, to the medical authorities and her neighbours, and then the strangest things start to happen. 'The absolute monarch of comic fiction' "Daily Mail", Townsend will be much in evidence this year, as 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the first appearance of Adrian Mole.