The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Author: Roddy Doyle
From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose extraordinary character will stay with you long after reading.‘He loved me and he beat me. I loved him and I took it. It’s as simple as that’Paula Spencer is thirty-nine, the mother of four and learning to live without Charlo, her violent, abusive husband….Read More
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