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Book SynopsisMeet Charlie Savage.
Charlie is a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who’s realised that he’s been a woman all along …
Compiled here for the first time is a whole year’s worth of Roddy Doyle’s hilarious series for the Irish Independent. Giving a unique voice to the everyday, he draws a portrait of a man – funny, loyal, somewhat bewildered – trying to keep pace with the modern world (if his knees don’t give out first).
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC WRITING 2019
'A delight from start to finish' Irish Mail on Sunday
Trade ReviewA delight from start to finish. -- Max Davidson * Mail on Sunday *
A refreshingly positive take on middle age, it’s optimistic, warm-hearted, blokishly moving and
written with a master’s pin-sharp command of humour…
a book that’s sure to be picked up and revisited time and time again. * Herald Scotland *
More than comedy or insight, this work has tenderness…
It does more than tickle our bellies, it warms our hearts. -- Niamh Donnelly * Irish Times *
Brilliantly funny. Heart-warmingly, vulnerably hilarious in fact. Doyle has crafted Charlie Savage with great care and has imbued him with such depth of character that I can’t imagine a reader finishing the book without loving him, just a little…
savour every page because Charlie Savage will enrich your life as long as he is in it. -- Ceire Duggan * RTE Guide *
This portrait of an ordinary man (and one clearly past his best) is by turns
hilarious and heartfelt. -- Rachel Lloyd * Economist, 1843 *
