THE WOMAN WHO WENT TO BED FOR A YEAR
Book ID/图书代码： 12844018C00041
English Summary/英文概要： The day her twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she’s wanted to yell at the world, ’Stop! I want to get off’. Finally, this is her chance.
Her husband Brian, an astronomer having an unsatisfactory affair, is upset. Who will cook his dinner? Eva, he complains, is attention seeking. But word of Eva’s defiance spreads.
Legions of fans, believing she is protesting, gather in the street. While Alexander the white van man brings tea, toast and sympathy. And from this odd but comforting place Eva begins to see both herself and the world very, very differently. . .
Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain’s favourite comic writer for over three decades, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year is her hilarious new novel.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 自打她那对天赋异禀的双胞胎离家上大学的那天，伊娃爬上床后便再没有起来。17年来，她一直想对世界发出内心的呐喊，‘停下！我想要歇一歇。’她的机会终于来了，也许她可以停下来思考一下自己的人生了...的丈夫布莱恩比弗博士是一位天文学家，主要的精力都在观察不断膨胀的宇宙，8岁时和自己志趣相投的同事泰坦尼亚的一段无疾而终的恋情，让他至今郁闷不得志地蜗居在自家的小车棚里。他向妻子抱怨道，谁来做饭? 因为这时的妻子要么不是精神世界崩溃了，或者就是将寻求关注提升到新的高度。
但是伊娃拒绝下床的消息很快就传开了。
长辫子的白色货车男亚历山大来帮助伊娃处理她所有的衣服和财产，并给她端来茶和烤面包。为了一睹这位“天使”的风采，大批粉丝写信给她，或聚集在街头。母亲露比并不以为然，说道，“如果她屁股着火了，很快就会下床的。”尽管整个世界好像都在关注她，但只有在床上，伊娃才终于开始理解自由。
《睡了一年的女人》是一部风趣而又感人的小说，讲述了当一个人不再成为大家都希望他成为的人时会发生什么。休汤森，英国近三十年来最为幽默的作家，撰写了一部抨击现代家庭生活的精彩小说。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 休汤森(Sue Townsend)1946年生于兰斯特郡。
35岁时，凭借《Womberang》(Bazaar and Rummage1984年出版)获得泰晤士电视剧作家奖，就此开始了她的写作生涯。其他戏剧作品包括《天牛》(The Great Celestial Cow) (1984)，
《十个小手指，九个小脚趾》(Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes )(1990), 以及最近发表的《你坐着舒服吗?》(Are You Sitting Comfortably?).但她最为家喻户晓的著作，则是充满着英伦诙谐韵味，沉浸着浓鬱的哀愁中自传体系列日记的’Adrian Mole’阿德里安莫尔的系列。
阿德里安莫尔的系列作品的第一部, 《莫尔少年的秘密日记》(The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ )于1982年出版，之后是《莫尔成长的烦恼》( The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole)(1984)。这两本小说的推出，使她成为20世纪80年代最畅销的小说家。紧随其后的同一系列中，《少年莫尔:荒野岁月》(1993)、《莫尔与大规模杀伤性武器》(2004)和《莫尔:无能为力的岁月》(2010)。这些著作均已被改编成广播、电视和戏剧。
2001年，休撰写了《一个知命之年人的公开自白》，这是一本1993年至2001年为塞恩斯伯里杂志撰写的每月专栏合集。1991年，莱斯特大学授予她名誉硕士学位。休的第一部小说《睡了一年的女人》，由企鹅出版社于2012年3月出版发行。
作者于2014年4月辞世，享年68岁。Sue Townsend was born in Leicester in 1946. Despite not learning to read until the age of eight, leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications and having three children by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she always found time to read widely. She also wrote secretly for twenty years. After joining a writers’ group at The Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, she won a Thames Television award for her first play, Womberang, and became a professional playwright and novelist. After the publication of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue continued to make the nation laugh and prick its conscience. She wrote seven further volumes of Adrian’s diaries and five other popular novels - including The Queen and I, Number Ten and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year - and numerous well received plays. Sue passed away in 2014 at the age of sixty-eight. She remains widely regarded as Britain’s favourite comic writer.
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