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Paula Spencer

By: Roddy Doyle
Narrated by: Ger Ryan
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When we first met Paula Spencer in The Woman Who Walked into Doors, she was 39, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together.

Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's 48th 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. Paula's got four grandchildren now; two of them are called Marcus and Sapphire.

Reviewing The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Mary Gordon wrote: "It is the triumph of this novel that Mr Doyle, entirely without condescension, shows the inner life of this battered house-cleaner to be the same stuff as that of the heroes of the great novels of Europe." Her words hold true for this new novel. Paula Spencer is brave, tenacious, and very funny. The novel that bears her name is another triumph for Roddy Doyle.

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Critic reviews

"He climbs into a woman's skin so brilliantly that you have to pinch yourself to remember this was written by a man... Doyle triumphs in The Woman Who Walked into Doors because he remembers what other male writers have forgotten - that his heroine is more than just a woman. Mainly, she is a human being." ( Sunday Express)
"The author¿s sentences reflect the tiny triumphs that mark Paula¿s life as she gets through each day without alcohol. They work particularly well on audio and the Irish narrator brings the listener right into the minutiae of Paula¿s life as she struggles to regain all she has lost, most poignantly, the love of her alienated children." ( The Observer)
"Ger Ryan gives a compelling voice to the Dublin venacular and for the duration of the [download] Paula becomes a presence in your life." ( The Sunday Times)
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