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 caf-nd 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
