| Title : | Paula Spencer : A Novel | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Roddy Doyle | | Publisher: | London : Jonathan Cape | | Publication Date: | 2006 | | Pagination: | 277p. | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-224-07866-5 | | Class number: | 823.914 | | Abstract: | When we first met Paula Spencer - The Woman who Walked into Doors - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her fanily together.
Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paulas forty-eighth birthday. She 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 now seem to come from Eastern Europe, and the checkout girls in the supermarket are Nigerian. You can get a cappuccino in the cafe and her sister Carmel is thinking of buying a holiday home in Bulgaria. |
Paula Spencer : A Novel [printed text] / Roddy Doyle . - London : Jonathan Cape, 2006 . - 277p. ; 24 cm. ISBN : 978-0-224-07866-5 | Class number: | 823.914 | | Abstract: | When we first met Paula Spencer - The Woman who Walked into Doors - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her fanily together.
Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paulas forty-eighth birthday. She 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 now seem to come from Eastern Europe, and the checkout girls in the supermarket are Nigerian. You can get a cappuccino in the cafe and her sister Carmel is thinking of buying a holiday home in Bulgaria. |
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