Life Without Children
A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending and uplifting 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, 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…
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February 22, 2022RODDY DOYLE was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of ten acclaimed novels, including The Commitments, The Van (a finalist for the Booker Prize), Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (winner of the Booker Prize), The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, A Star Called Henry, The Guts and most recently, Love. Doyle has also written several collections of stories, as well as Two Pints, Two More Pints and Two for the Road, and several works for children and young adults including the Rover novels. He lives in Dublin.
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
The Women Behind the Door
Roddy Doyle
Kellie
Kellie Harrington with Roddy Doyle
Life Without Children
Roddy Doyle
The Complete Two Pints
Roddy Doyle
Love
Roddy Doyle
Charlie Savage
Roddy Doyle
Two for the Road
Roddy Doyle
Smile
Roddy Doyle
Two More Pints
Roddy Doyle
The Guts
Roddy Doyle
Jimmy Jazz
Roddy Doyle
The Last Roundup Trilogy
Roddy Doyle