- Fiction, Women, Married women, Family violence
Gritty and moving, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors has been widely described as Roddy Doyle's best work to date.My name is Paula Spencer. I am thirty-nine years old. It was my birthday last week.
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Contemporary, earnest, classical in form and overwhelming.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Roddy Doyle
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 226
- Publisher
- Penguin, Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt, Huang guan
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9789573315858
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