The Pumpkin Eater (New York Review Books Classics)
“A subtle, fascinating, unhackneyed novel . . . in touch with human realities and  frailties, unsentimental and amused. . . .So moving, so funny, so desperate, so alive.  . . . [A] fine book, and one to be greatly enjoyed.” -Elizabeth Janeway,The New York  Times“A strange, fresh, gripping book. One of the the many achievements of The Pumpkin Eater is that it somehow manages to find universal truths in what was hardly an archetypal situation: Mortimer peels several layers of skin off the subjects of motherhood, marriage, and monogamy, so that what we’re asked to look at is frequently red-raw and painful without being remotely self-dramatizing. In fact, there’s a dreaminess to some of the prose that is particularly impressive, considering the tumult that the book describes.” —Nick Hornby, The Believer