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Beschrijving: ‘A magnificent achievement’ Guardian‘Roddy Doyle has done the impossible- he has made Paula Spencer even more unforgettable the second time round’ The TimesWhen we first met Paula Spencer- in The Woman Who Walked into Doors-she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together.Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula’s forty-eight 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 café, and her sister Carmel is thinking of buying a holiday home in Bulgaria.Paula Spencer is brave, tenacious and very funny.The novel that bears her name is another triumph for Roddy Doyle.‘A marvellous novel’ Carmen callil, Financial Times

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