by Roddy Doyle · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749395995
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«The Woman Who Walked Into Doors» is Roddy Doyle's contemporary fiction novel, published by Vintage in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Paula Spencer, mother of four, tries to get by after years of abuse at the hands of her husband Charlo, while also dealing with her problem with alcohol. Memories of her childhood and adolescence mix with the present and reveal how her relationship began and fell apart, as she clings to her dignity and her own voice.
First novel in Roddy Doyle's Paula Spencer series. The novel was originally published in 1996.
For readers of Irish fiction, contemporary fiction and book clubs, interested in realistic stories about domestic violence and resilience.
Roderick Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
