Paula Spencer-Roddy Doyle, 9780224078665

Name: Paula Spencer-Roddy Doyle, 9780224078665
Brand: Doyle, Roddy

Doyle, Roddy

Roddy Doyle: Paula Spencer [2006] hardback\nWhen 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. \""Paula Spencer\"" begins on the eve of Paula's forty-ninth birthday. She 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 now seem to come from Eastern Europe, and the checkout girls in the supermarket are Nigerian. You can get a cappuccino in the cafe, and her sister Carmel is thinking of buying a holiday home in Bulgaria. Paula's got four grandchildren now; two of them are called Marcus and Sapphire. Reviewing \""The Woman Who Walked into Doors\"", Mary Gordon wrote: \""It is the triumph of this novel that Mr Doyle - entirely without condescension - shows the inner life of this battered house-cleany