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Sep 12, 2024 · At first glance, Paula — whose harrowing life was detailed in Roddy Doyle’s other two novels, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors and Paula Spencer and a BBC series, Family — has gotten a happy...
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
Sep 2, 2006 · She hasn't had sex since her husband died. The McCartney murder won't go away. Paula knows all about it now. She's seen pictures of the pub where it started.
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.
The story opens with Paula Spencer, a middle-aged Irish wife and mother, being told that her abusive husband Charlo has been killed by the police in an aborted attempt at kidnapping a local bank manager.
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.
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Aug 29, 2024 · Paula, herself a lifelong victim of misogyny, finds herself defaulting to taking the man’s side: she feels sorry for Nicola’s abandoned husband who, by virtue of sending food packages and never...
