The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle

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'This is a wonder of a book, full of mercy, but a real stab in the heart, too. 'Doyle closes Paula's story with admirable delicacy, solving no problems and healing no wounds, but celebrating the wilful tenacity of a life.' Doyle triumphs in The Woman Who Walked Into Doors because he remembers what other male writers have forgotten – that his heroine is more than just a woman. 'He climbs into a woman's skin so brilliantly that you have to pinch yourself to remember this was written by a man. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. The author of seven acclaimed novels and Rory & Ita, a memoir of his parents.

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The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle