Roddy Doyle — Paula Spencer
Vintage 2007 Paperback, 292pp. 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 cafe 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. First few pages heavily foxed, rest of the book good. (ISBN: 9780099501374). Fair.
