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29%OFFRoddy Doyle - Paula Spencer - 9781846570360 - V9781846570360
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Paula Spencer

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Description for Paula Spencer CD-Audio. 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. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 215.

When 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. ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Format
CD
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846570360
SKU
V9781846570360
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-12

About Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of twelve acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

Reviews for Paula Spencer
The author's sentences reflect the tiny triumphs that mark Paula's life as she gets through each day without alcohol. They work particularly well on audio and the Irish narrator brings the listener right into the minutiae of Paula's life as she struggles to regain all she has lost, most poignantly, the love of her alienated children.
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