The Women Behind the Door 'The undisputed laureate of ordinary lives' Sunday Times
-
- Hardcover
- Taschenbuch ausgewählt
- eBook
-
Sprache:Englisch
-
Verlag:Vermilion
- Vermilion 8,99 €
- Vermilion 15,99 € ausgewählt
15,99 €
UVP
20,50 €
inkl. gesetzl. MwSt.,
Lieferung nach Hause
Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
12.09.2024
Verlag
VermilionSeitenzahl
272
Maße (L/B/H)
23,1/15,1/2,2 cm
Gewicht
336 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-78733-491-5
Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle’s spectacular return to his iconic heroine, Paula Spencer
'The undisputed laureate of ordinary lives'
SUNDAY TIMES
‘Brilliant…passionate, funny and humane’
DAVID NICHOLLS
At sixty-six, Paula Spencer – mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor – is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man – Joe – with whom she shares what she wants, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children, now with families and petty dramas the likes of which Paula could only have hoped for. Despite its ghosts, Paula has started to push her past aside.
That is until Paula’s eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep. Independent, affluent, a loving wife and mother, “a success” – Nicola is suddenly determined to leave it all behind. Over the next few days, as Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis, mother and daughter find themselves untangling anecdotes, jokes, memory and revelation to confront the bruised but beautiful symmetry of what each means to the other.
The next sequence in the life of Roddy Doyle’s quietly remarkable, ever-memorable Paula Spencer, The Women Behind the Door is a delicately devastating portrait of shame and the inescapable shadow it casts over families.
'Paula Spencer is a hymn to female generosity; the ordinary, discardable kind that keeps the world turning. Reading her voice for the first time sent a pang of recognition through me, followed by love. '
ANNE ENRIGHT
Kundinnen und Kunden meinen
Verfassen Sie die erste Bewertung zu diesem Artikel
Helfen Sie anderen Kund*innen durch Ihre Meinung
Kurze Frage zu unserer Seite
Vielen Dank für dein Feedback
Wir nutzen dein Feedback, um unsere Produktseiten zu verbessern. Bitte habe Verständnis, dass wir dir keine Rückmeldung geben können. Falls du Kontakt mit uns aufnehmen möchtest, kannst du dich aber gerne an unseren Kund*innenservice wenden.
zum Kundenservice