Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eleven acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
A quietly devastating collection of short stories that brilliantly
portrays the pervasive sense of hopelessness that immobilised us
during the dog days of Covid... Silver linings have been hard to
find lately, but in Life Without Children Doyle has given us
just that * Sunday Times *
[A] gem of a collection... Roddy Doyle's greatest gift has always
been for dialogue. He can command the full range of Irish voices
and registers, but he has lately put his gifts to use in painting a
picture of characters in...their "third age". -- Nikhil Krishnan *
Daily Telegraph *
Moving...[and] beautiful in its brevity. -- Eithne Farry * Daily
Mail *
Quietly devastating... Doyle's clipped, plain dialogue shivers with
emotion. -- Philip Womack * Financial Times *
Life Without Children...displays Doyle's remarkable talent
for conveying the strongest of emotions in the simplest of words
and the shortest of sentences... It bristles with quietly sharp
insights into the shape of a human life. -- James Walton * Reader's
Digest *
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