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DOYLE RODDY THE WOMEN BEHIND THE DOOR

Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle's spectacular return to his iconic heroine  Paula Spencer  'The
undisputed laureate of ordinary lives'   SUNDAY TIMES    'Brilliant...passionate  funny and
humane'   DAVID NICHOLLS  At sixty-six  Paula Spencer - mother  grandmother  widow  addict 
survivor - is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys  a man - Joe - with
whom she shares what she wants  friends who see her for who she is  and four grown children 
now with families and petty dramas the likes of which Paula could only have hoped for. Despite
its ghosts  Paula has started to push her past aside.  That is until Paula's eldest  Nicola 
turns up on her doorstep. Independent  affluent  a loving wife and mother  "a success" - Nicola
is suddenly determined to leave it all behind. Over the next few days  as Nicola gradually
confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis  mother and daughter find
themselves untangling anecdotes  jokes  memory and revelation to confront the bruised but
beautiful symmetry of what each means to the other.  The next sequence in the life of Roddy
Doyle's quietly remarkable  ever-memorable Paula Spencer  The Women Behind the Door is a
delicately devastating portrait of shame and the inescapable shadow it casts over families.  
'Paula Spencer is a hymn to female generosity  the ordinary  discardable kind that keeps the
world turning. Reading her voice for the first time sent a pang of recognition through me 
followed by love. ' ANNE ENRIGHT

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