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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