# Paula Spencer

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- Book: [Paula Spencer](https://www.bookquiver.com/roddy-doyle/paula-spencer) ([Paula Spencer.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/roddy-doyle/paula-spencer.md))
- Authors: [Roddy Doyle](https://www.bookquiver.com/roddy-doyle)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9950-137-4
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2018-12-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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 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 seem to come from Eastern Europe. You can get a cappuccino in the café 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 alcoholic: relentless, trivial, terrified’ Observer