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The women behind the door
Doyle, Roddy, 1958-2024
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At sixty-six, Paula Spencer - mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor - is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man - Joe - with whom she shares what she wants, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children, now with families and petty dramas the likes of which Paula could only have hoped for. Despite its ghosts, Paula has started to push her past aside. That is until Paula's eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep. Independent, affluent, a loving wife and mother, "a success" - Nicola is suddenly determined to leave it all behind. Over the next few days, as Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis, mother and daughter find themselves untangling anecdotes, jokes, memory and revelation to confront the bruised but beautiful symmetry of what each means to the other. The next sequence in the life of Roddy Doyle's quietly remarkable, ever-memorable Paula Spencer, The Women Behind the Door is a delicately devastating portrait of shame and the inescapable shadow it casts over families.
Main title:
The women behind the door / Roddy Doyle.
Author:
Doyle, Roddy, 1958-, author
Imprint:
[London] : Jonathan Cape, 2024.©2024
Collation:
263 pages ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Paula Spencer ; 3.
ISBN:
978178733491597817873349159781787334908
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
564790
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | DOYL | In-transit from Sandringham Library to Brighton Library (Set: 20 Sep 2024) |