The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

Compulsively readable

Financial Times

Even more mesmerizing than his prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Daily Mail

His best work yet

The Times

Impassioned, dignified and richly humane

Independent

In feeling the pulse of a raw Dublin suburb, Doyle is recording a beat that can be recognised all over the world

The Times

It is the triumph of this novel that Doyle - entirely without condescension - shows the inner life of this battered housewife to be the same stuff as that of the heroes of the great novels of Europe

Mary Gordon, New York Times Book Review

Paula Spencer may be Doyle's most successful literary creation yet, a tour de force of literary ventriloquism that gives the lie to the old writing workshop canard that a man can't write from the point of view of a woman, let alone in her voice

Washington Post

Roddy Doyle's unsparing examination of a brutal marriage transcends the boundaries of class and nationhood

The Times

This new novel is Roddy Doyle's best to date. I cannot recall any writer who has better captured the vulnerability and courage of a woman trapped in a loveless marriage

Cork Examiner