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Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle’s spectacular return to his iconic character, Paula Spencer.
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 undisputed laureate of ordinary lives'
SUNDAY TIMES
'The best novelist of his generation'
NICK HORNBY, author of High Fidelity
©2024 Roddy Doyle (P)2024 Penguin Audio
- ISBN10 1529933021
- ISBN13 9781529933024
- Publish Date 12 September 2024 (first published 10 September 2024)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Vintage Digital
- Format Audiobook (WAV)
- Duration 8 hours and 44 minutes
- Language English