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When we first met Paula Spencer in The Woman Who Walked into Doors, she was 39, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to carry her family together. Paula Spencer commences on the eve of Paula's 48th birthday. She hasn't had a glass or two for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, remain coping with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne. Paula still works as a cleaner, but all others performing now seem to be to result from Eastern Europe, and the checkout girls in the supermarket are Nigerian. You can get a cappuccino in the café, and her sister Carmel is thinking of buying any occasion home in Bulgaria. Paula's got four grandchildren now; two of these are called Marcus and Sapphire. Reviewing The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Mary Gordon wrote: "It is the triumph of the novel that Mr Doyle, completely without condescension, shows the inner life of the battered house-cleaner to be the same stuff as that of the heroes of the great novels of Europe." Her words hold true for this new novel. Paula Spencer is brave, tenacious, and incredibly funny. The novel that bears her name is another triumph for Roddy Doyle.
