num_pages: 277
description: Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer. Paula Spencer is turning forty-eight, and hasnt 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 seem to come from Eastern Europe. You can get a cappuccino in the caf and the checkout girls are all Nigerian. Ireland is certainly changing, but then so too is Paula dry, and determined to put her family back together again. A phenomenally rewarding read Could not be bettered in its depiction of the minutiae of the life of a recovering relentless, trivial, terrified Observer
language: English
title: Paula Spencer
titlecomplete: Paula Spencer
genres: Contemporary, Humor, Book Club, Ireland, Literary Fiction, Novels, Fiction, Family, Literature, Irish Literature
ratings_count: 2558
series: Paula Spencer
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award
publisher: Vintage Books USA