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Title	:	The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Paula Spencer #1)
Author	:	Roddy Doyle
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1997 by Penguin Books (first published April 1st 1996)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. European Literature. Irish Literature. Contemporary

The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Paula Spencer #1)

Roddy Doyle

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 3.84 | 8895 Users | 604 Reviews

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Paula Spencer is a thirty-nine-year-old working-class woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem. Paula recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her feeling powerless. Capturing both her vulnerability and her strength, Roddy Doyle gives Paula a voice that is real and unforgettable.

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Original Title:	The Woman Who Walked into Doors
ISBN:	0140255125 (ISBN13: 9780140255126)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Paula Spencer #1

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I'm not sure that I really liked this book but it definitely deserved a four star review. Roddy Doyle manages to write a book about an abused woman from her point of view and he nails it. Amazing, really. Searingly honest, it tells the story of Paula Spencer and her day to day life married to the abusive Charlo. I read this years ago and thought I'd never go back to it as it's just so sad but he wrote a sequel and I wanted to read it so I read this one again. One of Mr. Doyle's better efforts.

About 3.5 stars, but I didn't wanna give less, so I gave 4 instead.This was a surprisingly great book and an enriching literature, and I'm glad to have read this gem. This was again one of those stories that don't have a definite end and seem inconsequential and I love it. Paula Spencer is a middle aged woman, who is alcoholic, estranged from her abusive husband and barely making ends meet. She embarks on the narrative of her life and gives us little details of her life, like a holiday in a

The fact that Roddy Doyle could write a book about a woman stuck in an abusive relationship and make it so utterly believable is a testament to his imagination and extreme skill as a story-teller. 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. This revelation fuels a boatload worth of memories of her marriage to the man at whose hands she

The Barrytown trilogy and Paddy Clark, Ha, Ha, Ha were the greatest feel good comedies to come out of Ireland and The Van and Paddy Clark, Ha, Ha, Ha were respectively and justifiably nominated for and awarded the Booker Prize. So the question was where next? Roddy didnt leave Barrytown for his next project but showed us its seedier underbelly in the dark and harrowing TV show Family. This introduced us to the Spencer family with its domestic violence and abuse. Each episode focussed on a member

I came to this book reluctantly. Another book club choice I hadn't made; didn't want to read about domestic violence in general or an abused woman in particular.But Roddy Doyle hooked me from the unexpected start, 'I was told by a Guard who came to the door. He wasn't one I'd seen before, one of the usual ones....I knew before he spoke. It clicked inside me when I opened the door. (For years opening that door scared the life out of me. I hated it; it terrified me)'.And straight away we are into



I picked this one up from a display at the library. I had skimmed a few pages and the writing style caught my eye (he uses punctuation and italics to visually illustrate dialog and flashbacks). I think the author did a great job telling the sadly-classic story of the abused woman, how that situation came to be and the culture in which the situation flourished, how she finally found the strength to kick her husband out of the house and keep on living. I liked the way he was able to explore how