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Paula Spencer

Paula Spencer

by RoddyDoyle (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

When we first met Paula Spencer - in The Woman Who Walked into Doors - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together. Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday. She 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 now seem to come from Eastern Europe, and the checkout girls in the supermarket are Nigerian. You can get a cappuccino in the cafe, and her sister Carmel is thinking of buying a holiday home in Bulgaria.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05 Jul 2007
ISBN 10: 0099501376
ISBN 13: 9780099501374
Book Overview: Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Roddy Doyle returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer.

Media Reviews
[A] marvellous novel -- Carmen Callil * Financial Times *
Roddy Doyle has done the impossible - he has made Paula Spencer even more unforgettable the second time round * The Times *
[A] magnificent achievement * Guardian *
Doyle has created a little masterwork, a gem of persuasive realism -- Tom Adair * Scotland on Sunday *
An intoxicating sequel...a phenomenally rewarding read -- Euan Ferguson * Observer *
Author Bio
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eleven acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van, two collections of short stories, Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents, and most recently, The Guts. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.