Waterstones Kensington Book Club - October

Join us at Waterstones Kensington for our monthly book club. In October, we will be discussing Penelope Mortimer's semi-autobiographical novel, The Pumpkin Eater.

In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel, Penelope Mortimer depicts a married woman's breakdown in 1960s London. With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a numberless army of children, Mrs Armitage is astonished to find herself collapsing one day in Harrods.

Strange, unsettling and shot through with black comedy, this is a moving account of one woman's realisation that marriage and family life may not, after all, offer all the answers to the problems of living.