On the day when the children left their home, Eva went to bed, and stayed there... for a whole year. She's had enough of housekeeping, male egoism, the callousness of children and the stupidity of others. From now on, she will lie down and think about pleasant things, and let the rest take care of themselves. Her husband Brian, a hapless astronomer, is upset by Eve's outrageous behavior. Who will cook dinner? Running around the shops looking for gifts for Christmas? Who will clean the toilet? Anyone! That's it, enough is enough for Eva. Eva's eccentric act becomes the trigger for funny and tragic events that begin to happen in the Beaver family. What about Eve? And Eve spends her days in bed, makes new friends, becomes a star, experiences tragedies, rethinks everything that happened to her in life, and... changes. The great English writer Sue Townsend wrote a wise, stupidly funny and sad novel about us and our secret desires. Eve achieves what almost every one of us dreams of - crawling into bed and forgetting about everything in the world. This is why we love Townsend: her characters, teetering on the edge of complete absurdity, manage to remain alive and incredibly believable. Sue Townsend, like no one in literature, knows how to show the amazing absurdity of our everyday life. But at the same time, she will never allow the reader to feel oppressed or insulted. This is the last novel by the wittiest writer of our time, which, by the will of fate, became a testament novel.