Paula Spencer
Roddy Doyle$18.70
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"An extraordinary story about an ordinary life." --People "Brilliant" -- The New Yorker
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. Told with the unmistakable wit of Doyle's unique voice, this is a redemptive tale about a brave and tenacious woman.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 01/01/2008
ISBN: 9780143112730
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.80h x 6.56w x 0.50d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 02/10/2008 pg. 32
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. Told with the unmistakable wit of Doyle's unique voice, this is a redemptive tale about a brave and tenacious woman.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 01/01/2008
ISBN: 9780143112730
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.80h x 6.56w x 0.50d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 02/10/2008 pg. 32