- Literature, Women household employees, Fiction, Recovering alcoholics
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.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Roddy Doyle
- First published
- December 28, 2006
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, A. A. Knopf Canada, Random House Publishing Group
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780753177242
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