Paula Spencer
By: Roddy Doyle
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780753177242; 9780753177259
Subjects: Recovering alcoholics; Social conditions; Widows; Fiction; Women household employees
Description: 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. You can get a cappuccino in the café, and her sister Carmel is thinking of buying a holiday home in Bulgaria.
Notes: Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2006.