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The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend

The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year coverEva is a mother of twins and the wife of an astronomer called Brian Beaver (and yup, that makes her Eva Beaver).

The twins, Brian Junior and Brianne, leave for university and Eva goes to bed.  For a year.

Eva isn’t sure why she’s gone to bed.  She tells the doctor she’s been tired for seventeen years ‑ since the birth of the twins.  Medical people can’t find anything wrong with her, physically or mentally.

Eva takes the going-to-bed concept to its very limit, she won’t even get up to go the toilet.  After failing to persuade anyone to agree to dispose of her bodily waste in freezer bags, she settles on a process of unfurling the crisp white bed sheets to form a white pathway to her ensuite toilet, winding the sheets up and tucking them back into the bed when she’s finished. Continue reading

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