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The Woman Who Walked Into Doors Paperback - 1997

by Roddy Doyle


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Gritty and moving, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors has been widely described as Roddy Doyle's best work to date.My name is Paula Spencer. I am thirty-nine years old. It was my birthday last week. I was married for eighteen years. My husband died last year. He was shot by the Guards. He left me a year before that. I threw him out. His name was Charles Spencer; everyone called him Charlo.' The Woman Who Walked Into Doors is one of Roddy Doyle's finest achievement to date, the heart-rending story of a woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after a violent, abusive marriage and a worsening drink problem. Paula Spencer recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her powerless. Capturing both her vulnerability and her strength, Doyle gives Paula a voice that is real and unforgettable. Lean, sexy, funny and poignant, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors shows, yet again, that Roddy Doyle has an unparalleled gift for transforming ordinary life into great literature.

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Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of six acclaimed novels including the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

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  • Title The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
  • Author Roddy Doyle
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 226
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage Books, London
  • Date 1997-08-04
  • ISBN 9780749395995 / 0749395990
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Reading level 440
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“Roddy Doyle’s unsparing examination of a brutal marriage transcends the boundaries of class and nationhood.”
The Times

“Paula Spencer may be Doyle’s most successful literary creation yet, a tour de force of literary ventriloquism that gives the lie to the old writing workshop canard that a man can’t write from the point of view of a woman, let alone in her voice.”
Washington Post

About the author

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eleven 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.
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