{"product_id":"9780099501374","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.  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. 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.   ‘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":"Default Title","offer_id":45719644504382,"sku":"9780099501374","price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780099501374_9eb69a08-c518-4377-8a67-7a1d92b6fbc9.jpg?v=1707213410","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780099501374","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}