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Dec 10, 2024 | 
marconews.com | Roddy Doyle |Kiley Reid
There's an unexpected name joining the ranks of Booker Prize judges, but she's not an unfamiliar force in publishing - you've probably even seen this book ally reading across TV on "And Just Like That." Sarah Jessica Parker will sit alongside four authors on the 2025 Booker Prize judging panel, the Booker Prize Foundation announced Tuesday. This is far from the "Sex and the City" star's first rodeo in the book arena, but it is her most ambitious.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Roddy Doyle
My earliest reading memory My mother taught me how to read. I was happy enough in school but at some point she must have realised that I wasn’t learning anything; I think I was seven. So my earliest memory of reading is sitting with my mother at the kitchen table, looking at a comic called Sparky. Her finger was under a word in one of the speech bubbles, and I recognised it, and the next one, and the next. I was up and running.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
cbc.ca | Roddy Doyle
You may know Roddy Doyle best as the author of "The Commitments" -- or "The Snapper" -- just two of his novels that were adapted to the big screen. He comes to the Vancouver Writers Fest this week to speak about his third novel, "The Woman Behind the Door."
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
independent.com.mt | Roddy Doyle
The Women Behind the DoorAuthor: Roddy DoylePublisher: Viking / 2024Pages: 272Paula Spencer is back for an encore performance in Roddy Doyle's latest miracle of a novel, The Women Behind the Door. In this installment, the 66-year-old mother, grandmother, recovering alcoholic and domestic violence survivor, has weathered the first year of the Covid lockdown in reasonably good sprits. Her abusive husband, Charlo, is long dead, and her four adult children are finally out on their own.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
daily-tribune.com | Roddy Doyle |Laurie Hertzel
At the end of Roddy Doyle’s novel of domestic violence, “The Woman Who Walked into Doors” (1996), Paula Spencer finally fights back after decades of physical abuse, braining her husband Charlo with a frying pan when she sees him looking “that way” at their daughter, Nicola. “My finest hour,” she said. She couldn’t fight Charlo on her own behalf, but she found that she could fight him on behalf of her child.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Roddy Doyle
At the end of Roddy Doyle's novel of domestic violence, "The Woman Who Walked into Doors" (1996), Paula Spencer finally fights back after decades of physical abuse, braining her husband Charlo with a frying pan when she sees him looking "that way" at their daughter, Nicola. "My finest hour," she said. She couldn't fight Charlo on her own behalf, but she found that she could fight him on behalf of her child.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
independent.ie | Roddy Doyle
As Roddy Doyle prepares for the launch of The Women Behind the Door, he writes candidly on the creation of its protagonist, an alcoholic and survivor of domestic abuse, and how she became ingrained in his psyche over the yearsAbout halfway through proof-reading my new novel, The Women Behind the Door, I had a horrible thought.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Laurie Hertzel |Roddy Doyle
At the end of Roddy Doyle’s novel of domestic violence, “The Woman Who Walked into Doors” (1996), Paula Spencer finally fights back after decades of physical abuse, braining her husband Charlo with a frying pan when she sees him looking “that way” at their daughter, Nicola. “My finest hour,” she said. She couldn’t fight Charlo on her own behalf, but she found that she could fight him on behalf of her child.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle can’t let Paula Spencer go. She first appeared in the four-part RTE drama Family (1994), played by Ger Ryan, before narrating the 1996 novel The Woman Who Walked into Doors, a dramatic monologue in which an alcoholic Dubliner looks back on her life following the death of her abusive husband, Charlo (the title refers to an excuse used to explain away a bruise). In Paula Spencer (2006), Paula, newly sober, navigates a changing Ireland.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Declan Ryan |Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle, author of The Women Behind the Door Credit: Andrew Crowley Roddy Doyle has chronicled the challenging, humorous and rhapsodic side of working-class life, largely in his native Dublin, since his 1987 debut The Commitments (which later became a film and, in something of a rare event for literary fiction, a stage musical). But it has been almost 20 years since we saw Paula Spencer, the protagonist of The Woman Who Walked into Doors (1996) and its follow-up Paula Spencer (2006)....
