Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer.
Paula Spencer is turning forty-eight, and hasn’t had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne.
Paula still works as a cleaner, but all the others doing the job seem to come from Eastern Europe. You can get a cappuccino in the café and the checkout girls are all Nigerian. Ireland is certainly changing, but then so too is Paula – dry, and determined to put her family back together again.
‘A phenomenally rewarding read… Could not be bettered in its depiction of the minutiae of the life of a recovering alcoholic: relentless, trivial, terrified’ Observer
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- Authors:
- Doyle, Roddy
- Year Published:
- 2007
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780099501374
- Number of Pages:
- 288
- Publication Date:
- 05/07/2007
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:
- 05/07/2007
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780099501374