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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 05/07/2007
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ISBN: 9780099501374
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Length: 288 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
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Weight: 232g
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RRP: £8.99
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.
‘A phenomenally rewarding read… Could not be bettered in its depiction of the minutiae of the life of a recovering alcoholic: relentless, trivial, terrified’ Observer
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 05/07/2007
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ISBN: 9780099501374
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Length: 288 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
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Weight: 232g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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[A] marvellous novel
Carmen Callil, Financial Times
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Roddy Doyle has done the impossible - he has made Paula Spencer even more unforgettable the second time round
The Times
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[A] magnificent achievement
Guardian
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Doyle has created a little masterwork, a gem of persuasive realism
Tom Adair, Scotland on Sunday
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An intoxicating sequel...a phenomenally rewarding read
Euan Ferguson, Observer
