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The woman who walked into doors
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- ISBN: 9781407072838 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 1407072838 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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181 p. - Publisher: London : Vintage Books, 1998.
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| General Note: | Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1996. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. London : Random House Publishing Group, 2008. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 238 KB). |
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| Subject: | Family violence -- Fiction Married women -- Fiction Ireland -- Fiction |
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From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose extraordinary character will stay with you long after reading.
âHe loved me and he beat me. I loved him and I took it. Itâs as simple as thatâ
Paula Spencer is thirty-nine, the mother of four and learning to live without Charlo, her violent, abusive husband.
Paulaâs started drinking more and dreaming more, taking herself back to her contented childhood and audacious teenage years. Everything was better then, not least the music, the soundtrack to her romance with Charlo. As the past floats by and mingles with the present Paula Spencer finds herself coming alive, in all her vulnerability and her strength.
âRoddy Doyle's unsparing examination of a brutal marriage transcends the boundaries of class and nationhoodâ The Times
