Ten years after the bestselling The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Roddy Doyle resurrects one of his greatest characters When Roddy Doyle published The Woman Who Walked into Doors in 1996, critics and readers alike hailed it as a tour de force of literary ventriloquism that captured both the vulnerability and strength of a thirty-nine-year-old Dublin housewife with a fondness for drink. Now, Doyle triumphantly returns to Paula Spencer with the moving tale of her fight for a better future. Paula is now almost forty-eight years old. Her abusive husband Charlo is long dead, and it’s been four months and five days since she’s had a drink. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her, but she worries about Leanne.
