The Pumpkin Eater
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The study of a marriage. Jo has five children and husband number two when she meets writer Jake Armitage. She leaves this husband to marry Jake, and his career takes off. A few years and at least one child later, Jo is deeply depressed, breaking down in the middle of Harrods. After psychiatric care and the prospect of a new house in the country, she gets better; then, she is pregnant again, and this time Jake objects. Jo consents to an abortion and sterilization in the belief it will make her marriage happy again, but afterwards she learns ugly truths about Jake.
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Anthony Nicholls
Surgeon
Elizabeth Dear
Older Elizabeth
Gregory Phillips
Older Pete
Frank Singuineau
King of Israel
Maggie Smith
Philpot
James Mason
Bob Conway
Janine Gray
Beth Conway
Anne Bancroft
Jo Armitage
Phoebe Nicholls
Younger Elizabeth
Cedric Hardwicke
Mr. James - Jo's father
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