The woman who went to bed for a year

"When Eva was sacked for constantly connecting the wrong line to the wrong customer, she was too afraid to tell her mother, so she went and sat in the little Arts and Crafts-designed library and read her way through a selection of the English classics. Then, a fortnight after her sacking, the Head Librarian –a cerebral man who had no managerial skills– put up a notice advertising a vacancy for a library assistant: 'Qualifications Essential.'

 She had no suitable qualifications. But at the informal interview the head Librarian told Eva that in his opinion she was supremely qualified since he had seen her reading The Mill on the Floss, Lucky Jim, Bleak House and even Sons and Lovers.

 Eva told her mother that she had changed her job and would in future be earning less, at the library.

 Ruby said she was a fool and that books were overrated and rather unhygienic. 'You never know who's been messing about with the pages'."

The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year, Sue Townsend, Penguin Books, edición de bolsillo, 2012. Páxina 42. Anaco aportado por Jean Murdock 

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"Eva and Brian had met at the university library in Leicester, where Eva was a library assistant. Because she loved books, she forgot that a large part of her job would be sending stern letters to students and academics whose books were overdue or defaced –she had once found a large rubber condom being used as a bookmark in an early edition of On the Origin of Species."

The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year, Sue Townsend, Penguin Books, edición de bolsillo, 2012. Páxina 50.

Anacos aportados por Jean Murdock