Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle

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Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle

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A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories Love and marriage.

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Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle

***A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN AUTUMN 2021*** 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. 'Roddy Doyle is an absolute genius' J.K. Rowling 'The undisputed laureate of ordinary lives' The Times
A quietly devastating collection of short stories that brilliantly portrays the pervasive sense of hopelessness that immobilised us during the dog days of Covid.. Silver linings have been hard to find lately, but in Life Without Children Doyle has given us just that * Sunday Times *
[A] gem of a collection... Roddy Doyle's greatest gift has always been for dialogue. He can command the full range of Irish voices and registers, but he has lately put his gifts to use in painting a picture of characters in...their "third age". * Daily Telegraph *
Quietly devastating... Doyle's clipped, plain dialogue shivers with emotion. * Financial Times *
Life Without Children...displays Doyle's remarkable talent for conveying the strongest of emotions in the simplest of words and the shortest of sentences... It bristles with quietly sharp insights into the shape of a human life. * Reader's Digest *
There is an immediacy to the stories in Life Without Children, an emotional charge that comes with writing in real time, and an optimism too. In the stripping away of everyday anxieties, the virus reveals what matters most, those qualities that are always at the heart of Doyle's fiction: love and connection. * Observer *
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of twelve acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
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ISBN 13 9781787333574
ISBN 10 1787333574
Title Life Without Children
Author Roddy Doyle
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 2021-10-07
Number of pages 192
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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