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4 days ago · THE WOMEN BEHIND THE DOOR, by Roddy Doyle. Honestly, friends, as a writer and lifelong reader, I would never tell a male author that he can’t write in a female voice. I just wouldn’t. In 1996 ...
17 hours ago · 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 ...
1 day ago · September 10, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. EDT. The women in Roddy Doyle’s “The Women Behind the Door” are so flawed: bruised, crass, guilt-ridden, incontinent, self-centered, blunt to a fault, furious ...
3 days ago · Paula Spencer is back for an encore performance in Roddy Doyle’s latest miracle of a novel, “The Women Behind the Door.” In this installment, the 66-year-old mother, grandmother, recovering alcoholic and domestic violence survivor, has weathered the first year of the Covid lockdown in reasonably good sprits.
Sep 4, 2024 · Booker Prize-winning Irishman Roddy Doyle finds humor and pain in ‘The Women Behind the Door’ FICTION: It’s the third of his novels about Paula Spencer, who has finally found a measure of peace.
2 days ago · 9 reviews. September 8, 2024. The Women Behind the Door tells the story of Paula Spencer, a recovering alcoholic in her sixties, as she reconnects with her oldest daughter, Nicola, who has always acted as the mother figure in their relationship.
3 days ago · Doyle first introduced Paula in his 1996 novel “The Woman Who Walked into Doors.” The title alludes to an excuse that battered women sometimes give to explain their injuries. Ten years later ...
