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Life Without Children: The exhilarating new short story collection from the Booker Prize-winning author
Roddy Doyle
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Description for Life Without Children: The exhilarating new short story collection from the Booker Prize-winning author
Paperback.
Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781529115024
SKU
9781529115024
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
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 Life Without Children: The exhilarating new short story collection from the Booker Prize-winning author
A quietly devastating collection of short stories that brilliantly portrays the pervasive sense of hopelessness that immobilised us during the dog days of Covid... Silver linings have been hard to find lately, but in Life Without Children Doyle has given us just that
Sunday Times
[A] gem of a collection... Roddy Doyle's greatest gift has always been for ... Read more
Sunday Times
[A] gem of a collection... Roddy Doyle's greatest gift has always been for ... Read more