Life Without Children
Language: English
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2021
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- Hardcover
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An unread copy. Signed without inscription on the title page by the author. Short stories by the Booker prize-winning author. The original, unclipped dust jacket is protected by a clear, removable cover. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations Codes of Ethics.
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- Title
- Life Without Children
- Author
- Doyle, Roddy
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, London
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1787333574
- ISBN 13
- 9781787333574
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
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
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