← Penelope MortimerThe Pumpkin Eaterby Penelope MortimerNovel about an overwhelmed woman raising children while her marriage crumbles around herFind on Amazon↗About the authorPenelope MortimerMortimer was a distinguished English novelist whose The Pumpkin Eater is one of the finest studies of a woman's psychological crisis in twentieth-century fiction. Her frank treatment of female experience influenced a generation of women writers.More by Penelope MortimerThe Home→My Friend Says It's Bullet-Proof→The Handyman→About Time→