Paula Spencer
by:
Roddy Doyle
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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780099501374
- Categories BX, BXOS, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Personal Development, RM 1 - RM 9.99, Roddy Doyle, Self-Help
- Author(s) Roddy Doyle
- Publisher Vintage
- Pages 288
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 12.9cm x 1.7cm x 19.8cm
- Weight 0.232 kg
product description
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 cafe 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
