Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Roddy Doyle returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer.
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.
Paula's got four grandchildren now; two of them are called Marcus and Sapphire.
Paula Spencer is brave, tenacious and very funny. The novel that bears her name is another triumph for Roddy Doyle.
About the Author
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of seven acclaimed novels and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
Format: Paperback | 320 pages
Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 13.5 x 2 | 362g
Publication Date: 01 Sep 2006
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0224078674
ISBN13: 9780224078672
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Some damage to the cover including minor scuff marks and some minor creasing, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing, But no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.