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The women behind the door /

Doyle, Roddy, 1958-

The women behind the door / Roddy Doyle. - London, England : Jonathan Cape, 2024. - 263 pages ; 24 cm. - Paula Spencer 3 . - Paula Spencer ; [3] .

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 her life on her own terms, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children, now all left home. Despite its ghosts, Paula has started to push her past aside. That is until Paula's eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep. Independent, comfortable, 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.

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Parent and adult child--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Reminiscing--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.


Domestic fiction

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