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Life Without Children
- Narrated by: Roddy Doyle
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in 10 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 10 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.
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- patrick
- 08-03-24
The sublime links of fabric and social mores of life we miss....
Holy Holy moly.....beautiful!!! There's a telling factor of life that keep hit home and making g you reach out and squeeze everyone....
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- Anonymous User
- 09-04-22
fabulous.
Great humour and excellent story telling. insight into different people's thoughts and feelings during lockdown
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- Miss JM Collier
- 20-06-23
Not as memorable as previous Roddy Doyle works.
I didn’t really enjoy this book. I found it depressing and wasn’t really made aware that it was a bundle of separate stories until I researched the book to find out what the hell was going on.
This stories are beautifully written, and I enjoyed that element, but for me the stories didn’t have the same depth as previous Roddy Doyle books.
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