Description
‘He loved me and he beat me. I loved him and I took it. It’s as simple as that’
Paula Spencer is thirty-nine, the mother of four and learning to live without Charlo, her violent, abusive husband.
Paula has started drinking more and dreaming more, taking herself back to her contented childhood and audacious teenage years. Everything was better then, not least the music, the soundtrack to her romance with Charlo. As the past floats by and mingles with the present, Paula Spencer finds herself coming alive, in all her vulnerability and her strength.
The story of an ordinary woman whose extraordinary character will stay with you long after reading.
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‘Roddy Doyle's unsparing examination of a brutal marriage transcends the boundaries of class and nationhood’ — The Times
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