Roddy Doyle (1958-)


The Women Behind the Door

Doyle, Roddy | THE WOMEN BEHIND THE DOOR


BoklivArtikelnr: 9781787334915

Roman om familjedynamik och hemligheter. Häftad utgåva från Random House UK, 272 sidor.

  • Berättelse om människliga relationer och livshändelser.

  • Fokuserar på minnen och hemligheter mellan mor och dotter.

  • Utgiven i häftad utgåva av Random House UK.

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Bindning: Häftat band

Bokförlag: Random House UK
ISBN: 9781787334915

Omfång: 272 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2024-09-12

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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 j

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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Vanliga frågor om The Women Behind the Door av Roddy Doyle

Boken handlar om Paula Spencer, en kvinna som vid sextiosex års ålder börjar leva sitt liv fullt ut, men tvingas konfrontera minnen och hemligheter när hennes dotter Nicola kommer med en livskris.

Doyle utforskar teman som familjerelationer, skam, och hur livets utmaningar påverkar identitet och dynamik mellan föräldrar och barn.

Boken är utgiven av Random House UK, har 272 sidor, är skriven på engelska, har ISBN 9781787334915, och publiceras den 12 september 2024 i häftat band.

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