Life without children : stories
Doyle, Roddy, 1958-2021
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A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories. Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten, beautifully moving short stories mostly written over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret. Told with Doyle's signature warmth, wit and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet.
Main title:
Life without children : stories / Roddy Doyle.
Author:
Doyle, Roddy, 1958-, author
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2021.©2021
Collation:
vii, 177 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
97817873335819781787333581
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
BRN:
457818
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | DOYL | Available |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | DOYL | Available |