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This is the sequel to The Woman Who Walked into Doors. Paula Spencer is back... a little older, but she hasn't had a drink in four months and five days. Roddy Doyle is an amazing writer. He captures reality - naked reality both the good and the bad - better than most writers.
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I really liked it but its distracting to have everything rewritten into American. Fecking becomes fucking - which is too harsh... wan becomes one which makes no sense. So buy the original written in the original where it will make more sense.
I like the style, and I liked Paula's attempts to figure out what sort of woman she had become, but I wish the actual story had a bit more structure. An interesting character piece, but not my favorite Doyle novel.
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