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Sep 12, 2024 · Photo: Steve Humphreys. Tanya Sweeney. Thu 12 Sep 2024 at 03:30. Paula Spencer, like the author who created her nearly three decades ago, is now in her mid-60s. On the face of it, she’s reached...
The novel tells the struggle and survival of Paula Spencer, an abused wife who is the narrator. The title comes from an incident where Paula's husband asks her how she received a bruise he was responsible for, and she replies that she "walked into a door."
- Roddy Doyle
- 1996
Oct 8, 2024 · A third outing for Paula Spencer sees her hard-fought lockdown peace disrupted by the arrival of a middle-aged daughter. Dublin provides the urban life force for Roddy Doyle’s latest novel ...
Jan 1, 1997 · Paula Spencer is the narrator and unlikely heroine of Roddy Doyle's fifth novel, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors. The mother of four children, she lives in a working-class suburb of Dublin. She is also a battered wife and an alcoholic. Paula's husband, Charlo, has been killed while escaping the scene of a crime he committed.
Sep 20, 2024 · On the day that Paula comes home from a giddy outing with Mary, Nicola shows up at her front door, catatonic. She has left her husband and children. She’s moving back home.
Sep 16, 2024 · On the day that Paula comes home from a giddy outing with Mary, Nicola shows up at her front door, catatonic. She has left her husband and children. She’s moving back home.
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From the perspective of age 39, Paula tells her current story, working on a poverty income as a cleaning woman, raising three children, and recovering from the death of her estranged husband, while constantly reflecting on memories that chart her progression from childhood.
