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

Roddy Doyle

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Sep 06, 2009 Daisy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ireland, favorites-2nd-place

The last third of the book is relentless. You just want it to stop, which is appropriate I guess considering what the woman goes through. It gets repetitive; how will you get out, how will she get out? It's frantic and heartbreaking.
But I'd call this a love story.

Something Paula says on p. 204:
I was their future. That was what they saw. The grown-up world. Violence, fat, and an empty fridge. A bottle of gin but no meat. Black eyes, no teeth; a lump in the corner. Do your homework, say your pray ...more

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Nov 11, 2008 Pam rated it really liked it

Shelves: book-club-choice, 2008

Wow.

Powerful stuff. With Doyle, I just don't know when I am in for a humorous read or something more serious. This book was written in a sometimes light conversational manner but the subject was tough. Paula (main character) said so much with so few words.

There is also a sequel entitled simply "Paula Spencer". I already have it. ...more

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