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Doyle, Roddy, 1958-

Life without children : stories / Roddy Doyle. - Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2021. - 177 pages ; 22 cm

"Ten short"--Cover

Box sets -- The curfew -- Life without children -- Gone -- Nurse -- Masks -- The charger -- The funeral -- Worms -- The five lamps.

A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories. Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten, beautifully moving short stories mostly written over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret. Told with Doyle's signature warmth, wit and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet.

ISBN: 9781787333581 1787333582 9781787333574 1787333574

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC1C6411 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020281523 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
COVID-19 (Disease)--Fiction.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---Fiction.
Public health administration--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Domestic fiction
Short stories

LC Class. No.: PR6054.O95 / L54 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 823.914