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Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Roddy Doyle returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula SpencerWhen 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. Paula's got four grandchildren now; two of them are called Marcus and Sapphire.Reviewing The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Mary Gordon wrote: "It is the triumph of this novel that Mr Doyle – entirely without condescension – shows the inner life of this battered house-cleaner to be the same stuff as that of the heroes of the great novels of Europe.' Her words hold true for this new novel. Paula Spencer is brave,

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Author

Doyle, Roddy, 1958-

Publisher

Viking Adult

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670038169

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.79 / 5 (1,761 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14