Penelope Mortimer

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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1985
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Book List in Order: 7 titles

  • The Handyman

  • Long Distance

  • My Friend Says It's Bullet-proof

  • The Pumpkin Eater

    This darkly humorous novel of a woman’s inner musings on motherhood, betrayal, dreams -- and the unpredictable emotions that surround them -- is “so moving, so funny, so desperate, so alive . . . one to be greatly enjoyed” (The New York Times)....

  • Saturday Lunch with the Brownings

  • Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

    A breakthrough novel of suburban loneliness and subversion -- “her style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel” (Rachel Cooke, The Observer)Bourgeois housewife Ruth Whiting is “paralysed by triviality,” measuring out he...

  • The Home

    A tragi-comedy published in 1971 that looks at the experience of a woman escaping a broken marriage and trying to make a new home for grown-up children who no longer need her. Dealing with themes of abandonment, loneliness, liberation and love, Elea...



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Penelope Mortimer has published 7 books.

Penelope Mortimer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Home, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Penelope Mortimer, The Handyman, was published in August 1985.

No. Penelope Mortimer does not write books in series.
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