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Life Without Children: Stories

By Roddy Doyle

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Life Without Children: Stories

By Roddy Doyle

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A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 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 written mostly 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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
2022-02-22
Publication Date:
2022-02-22
Publisher:
VIKING
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0593300564
ISBN13:
9780593300565
Weight:
286 g
Height:
150 cm
Width:
219 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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