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A powerful, moving mother-daughter story filled with struggle and redemption by Booker-Prize Winning author Roddy Doyle

Paula Spencer would be the first to admit that shes been through hard times and many mistakes only now to be standing, at age 66, on the other side of lockdown, freshly jabbed with her first shot of the vaccine. Now she must help her daugher, Nicola, who has shown up on Paulas Dublin doorstep wanting to leave her husband and three daughters. Nicola also makes a potent revelation about the sexual abuse she faced as a teenager at the hands of her father.

The Woman Behind the Door is a powerful moving story about mother-daughter relationships and the endless journey to overcome your past. Many readers will welcome the chance to reconnect with this strong singular character that we have seen in The Women Who Walked Into Doors and Paula Spencer, but all readers will be glad to have Paula in their life now.

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A powerful, moving mother-daughter story filled with struggle and redemption by Booker-Prize winning author Roddy Doyle

At sixty-six, Paula Spencermother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivorhas finally started to live her life. She has a job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, her boyfriend Joe is a text away when she needs him, and her four children now have the healthy families and petty dramas that Paula could have only hoped for. Despite its ghosts, Paula has started to push her past aside.

That is until her eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep one day. Nicola is everything Paula wasntindependent, affluent, a loving wife and mother, a successbut now she is suddenly determined to leave it all behind. She has left her family and come to stay. As Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis, mother and daughter must untangle past memory, trauma, and revelations to confront what they mean to each otherand who they want to be.

A timely and powerful novel of regrets, reparations, and reconciliations, The Women Behind the Door is a delicately devastating portrait of shame and the inescapable shadow it casts over families. Many readers will welcome the chance to reconnect with this strong, singular character whom we have seen in The Woman Who Walked into Doors and Paula Spencer, but all readers will be glad to have Paula in their life now.

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A showdown between mother and daughter that is about as emotionally painful as it gets. Fiona Maazel, The New York Times

A powerful, moving mother-daughter story filled with struggle and redemption by Booker-Prize winning author Roddy Doyle

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**“A showdown between mother and daughter that is about as emotionally painful as it gets.” —Fiona Maazel, The New York Times

A powerful, moving mother-daughter story filled with struggle and redemption by Booker-Prize winning author Roddy Doyle**

At sixty-six, Paula Spencer—mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor—has finally started to live her life. She has a job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, her boyfriend Joe is a text away when she needs him, and her four children now have the healthy families and petty dramas that Paula could have only hoped for. Despite its ghosts, Paula has started to push her past aside.

That is until her eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep one day. Nicola is everything Paula wasn’t—independent, affluent, a loving wife and mother, a “success”—but now she is suddenly determined to leave it all behind. She has left her family and come to stay. As Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis, mother and daughter must untangle past memory, trauma, and revelations to confront what they mean to each other—and who they want to be.

The Women Behind the Door

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