\"Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater Had a wife and couldn\"t keep her...\" In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel, Penelope Mortimer depicts a married woman\"s breakdown in 1960s London. With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a numberless army of children, Mrs Armitage is astonished to find herself collapsing one day in Harrods....

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Mariners Nine takes us on a rip-roaring modern-day odyssey across the high seas in a beautiful fifty-foot sloop called the Ancient Mariner. We sail from the marshes of West Mersea in Essex across the Atlantic to Barbados, Panama, the Galapagos, Tahiti, Patagonia and Peru....