In this novel set in Dublin of the mid-1990s the woman’s name is Paula Spencer. How often do we hear of The Woman Who Walked Into Doors or who fell down the stairs again. Roddy Doyle lives in Dublin, Ireland, with his family. In addition, the author wrote novellas and short stories, plays for the theatre and the screen, children’s books, and the memoirs of his parents and of footballer Roy Keane. His other successful novels are The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (1996) along with its late sequel Paula Spencer (2006) and the three books of The Last Roundup titled A Star Called Henry (1999), Oh, Play That Thing! (2004) and The Dead Republic (2010). The five books together form The Barrytown Pentalogy although the last two use to be published in single editions. As from 1987 he published prolifically making his debut as a novelist with The Commitments that was followed by its sequels The Snapper (1990), The Van (1991), Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993), and – after an interval of twenty years – The Guts (2013). degree from University College Dublin, he worked as a teacher of English and geography for several years and wrote only in his free time.

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin, Ireland, in May 1958. The Irish novel The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle shows the mixed feelings that Paula Spencer has about her husband who early on in their marriage began to beat her up ferociously and who drove her into alcoholism. Quite obviously, it’s a very complex matter psychologically.

For someone who has never been in the situation it’s really hard to understand why anyone would put up with being verbally or physically attacked on a regular basis, maybe even daily and sometimes so violently that being killed is an actual possibility. Today it may be less of a taboo to talk about it than it used to be in former times, but still many victims keep suffering in their own homes without losing a word about their ordeal even to closest friends or family. Domestic abuse is a sad reality and even in modern western society it’s probably much commoner than we are ready to believe.

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