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Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle's spectacular return to his iconic heroine, Paula Spencer

The undisputed laureate of ordinary lives'
SUNDAY TIMES

Brilliantpassionate, funny and humane'
DAVID NICHOLLS

At sixty-six, Paula Spencer mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man Joe with whom she shares what she wants, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children, now with families and petty dramas the likes of which Paula could only have hoped for. Despite its ghosts, Paula has started to push her past aside.

That is until Paula's eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep. Independent, affluent, a loving wife and mother, a success Nicola is suddenly determined to leave it all behind. Over the next few days, as Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis, mother and daughter find themselves unt

The Women Behind the Door

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Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle's spectacular return to his iconic heroine, Paula SpencerThe undisputed laureate of ordinary lives'SUNDAY TIMESBrilliantpassionate, funny and... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 9/12/2024
    ISBN13: 9781787334908, 978-1787334908
    ISBN10: 1787334902

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle's spectacular return to his iconic heroine, Paula Spencer

    The undisputed laureate of ordinary lives'
    SUNDAY TIMES

    Brilliantpassionate, funny and humane'
    DAVID NICHOLLS

    At sixty-six, Paula Spencer mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man Joe with whom she shares what she wants, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children, now with families and petty dramas the likes of which Paula could only have hoped for. Despite its ghosts, Paula has started to push her past aside.

    That is until Paula's eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep. Independent, affluent, a loving wife and mother, a success Nicola is suddenly determined to leave it all behind. Over the next few days, as Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis, mother and daughter find themselves unt

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