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The 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.Read More

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    '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.

  • Foyles

    From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose extraordinary character will stay with you long after reading.‘He loved me and he beat me. I loved him and I took it. It’s as simple as that’Paula Spencer is thirty-nine, the mother of four and learning to live without Charlo, her violent, abusive husband.Paula’s started drinking more and dreaming more, taking herself back to her contented childhood and audacious teenage years. Everything was better then, not least the music, the soundtrack to her romance with Charlo. As the past floats by and mingles with the present Paula Spencer finds herself coming alive, in all her vulnerability and her strength.‘Roddy Doyle's unsparing examination of a brutal marriage transcends the boundaries of class and nationhood’ The Times

  • BookDepository

    The Woman Who Walked Into Doors : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780749395995 : : 04 Aug 1997 : From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose extraordinary character will stay with you long after reading. 'He loved me and he beat me.

  • 0749395990
  • 9780749395995
  • Roddy Doyle
  • 3 January 1998
  • Vintage
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
  • New edition
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