{"product_id":"paula-spencer-1","title":"Paula Spencer","description":"Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer.\r\n\r\n  Paula Spencer is turning forty-eight, and hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne.\r\n\r\n Paula still works as a cleaner, but all the others doing the job seem to come from Eastern Europe. You can get a cappuccino in the café and the checkout girls are all Nigerian. Ireland is certainly changing, but then so too is Paula - dry, and determined to put her family back together again. \r\n\r\n  'A phenomenally rewarding read… Could not be bettered in its depiction of the minutiae of the life of a recovering alcoholic: relentless, trivial, terrified' Observer","brand":"Roddy Doyle","offers":[{"title":"Random House \/ 05 Jul 2007 \/ 376","offer_id":50468477403477,"sku":"9780099501374","price":3.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0501\/4188\/8668\/files\/9780099501374_486b63b3-76cb-4f93-b311-4e9c861fe2fd.webp?v=1742488684","url":"https:\/\/www.bookworld.ie\/products\/paula-spencer-1","provider":"Book World Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}