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Availability:In StockContributor:Roddy DoyleSeries:Paula Spencer Novel #2Audience:Young AdultPublish date:2008-01-01Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143112730ISBN-10:143112732UPC:9780143112730Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:7.80 x 6.56 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SCH6AS0R6K
"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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143112730ISBN-10:143112732UPC:9780143112730Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:7.80 x 6.56 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SCH6AS0R6K
Roddy Doyle is an internationally bestselling writer. His first three novels--The Commitments, The Snapper, and the 1991 Booker Prize finalist The Van--are known as The Barrytown Trilogy. He is also the author of the novels Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993 Booker Prize winner), The Woman Who Walked into Doors, and A Star Called Henry, and a non-fiction book about his parents, Rory & Ita. Doyle has also written for the stage and the screen: the plays Brownbread, War, Guess Who's Coming for the Dinner, and The Woman Who Walked Into Doors; the film adaptations of The Commitments )as co-writer), The Snapper, and The Van; When Brendan Met Trudy (an original screenplay); the four-part television series Family for the BBC; and the television play Hell for Leather. Roddy Doyle has also written the children's books The Giggler Treatment, Rover Saves Christmas, and The Meanwhile Adventures and contributed to a variety of publications including The New Yorker magazine and several anthologies. He lives in Dublin.


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