Paula Spencer
| Author | : Roddy Doyle |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2008-09-04 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781407017976 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1407017977 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Download or read book Paula Spencer written by Roddy Doyle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
