The Woman Behind the Door
- Auteur: Roddy Doyle (Ierland)
- Soort boek: Ierse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Jonathan Capa
- Verschijnt: 10 september 2024
- Omvang: 272 pagina’s
- Prijs: £ 20,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Roddy Doyle The Woman Behind the Door recensie, review en informatie
- “Mr Doyle has made his own the gritty world of modern Dublin.” (New York Times)
- “Roddy Doyle has never lacked ambition, writing complex novels that appear straightforward: heavy on the dialogue, simple in the language, deep in the lives of ordinary working people.” (The Times)
- “Paula Spencer is a hymn to female generosity; the ordinary, discardable kind that keeps the world turning. Reading her voice for the first time sent a pang of recognition through me, followed by love.” (Anne Enright)
Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Ierse schrijver Roddy Doyle
At sixty-six, Paula Spencer – mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor – is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man – Joe – with whom she shares what she wants, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children, now with families and petty dramas the likes of which Paula could only have hoped for. Despite its ghosts, Paula has started to push her past aside.
That is until Paula’s eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep. Independent, affluent, a loving wife and mother, “a success” – Nicola is suddenly determined to leave it all behind. Over the next few days, as Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis, mother and daughter find themselves untangling anecdotes, jokes, memory and revelation to confront the bruised but beautiful symmetry of what each means to the other.
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin on 8 May 1958. He is the author of twelve acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.