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The novel is a sequel to Doyle's 1996 book The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, describing the life of alcoholic and battered wife Paula Spencer. The second book picks up her life ten years after the death of her husband.
Paula Spencer. by Roddy Doyle. 3.79 · 2,629 Ratings · 257 Reviews · published 2006 · 8 editions. Picking up nearly ten years after the tale, The Wo… Want to Read. Rate it: The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Paula Spencer, #1) and Paula Spencer (Paula Spencer, #2)
Jan 1, 2006 · This 10(!) years in coming sequel to A Woman Who Walks into Doors, catches up with the life and times of recovering alcoholic, 48 year old mother of four, Paula Spencer and she strives to have some form of life.
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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.
Paula Spencer is the protagonist of an earlier novel by Roddy Doyle, The Woman Who Walked into Doors. But much has happened since then, and in Doyle’s new novel, he returns to her life and answers the question: Who is Paula Spencer now? In her newly sober state, she struggles through every day.
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Dec 18, 2007 · Roddy Doyle's mastery of character and setting lift "Paula Spencer" from being a bitter, depressing read culled from reality tv and shock/horror supermarket checkout magazines to a memorable tale of courage and the bittersweet rebuilding of a broken woman and her broken family.
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Paula Spencer is a thirty-nine-year-old working-class woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem. Paula recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her feeling powerless.
