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The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater

by Penelope Mortimer

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Sep 16, 2024
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This Thursday was the birthday of Penelope Mortimer, who died twenty-five years ago next month. I can highly recommend reading her novel The Pumpkin Eater, first published in 1962. Mortimer said that…

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