TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doyle, Roddy,
TI  - The women behind the door
T2  - Paula Spencer
SN  - 9781787334915
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2024///.
CY  - London, England : 
PB  - Jonathan Cape, 
KW  - Parent and adult child
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Reminiscing
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Domestic fiction
N2  - 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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