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Paula Spencer

Roddy Doyle

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Format: Paperback

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EAN: 9780099501374
Published: 5 Jul 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 café, and her sister Carmel is thinking of buying a holiday home in Bulgaria.

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What the critics say

[A] marvellous novel
- 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
- Scotland on Sunday

An intoxicating sequel...a phenomenally rewarding read
- Observer

About the Author

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of nine acclaimed novels, one collection of short stories and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. His last book, The Dead Republic, was the final volume in the Henry Smart trilogy.

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