The woman who walked into doors review5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() 'I was well into the novel when Family came out and I already knew that Paula's episode in that series, though the best thing I had ever written, was not enough: that there was her past to be looked at and probably her future. It was this last accusation voiced, Doyle notes with some surprise, primarily by women, that convinced him he was right to develop the character of Paula Spencer for The Woman Who Walked Into Doors. The questions she asks herself above are the kinds of questions all conservative Ireland posed to Doyle when that series was screened: he was making it up, selling a caricature, there was no beating, no men like Charlo, this simply did not happen in Catholic Dublin households if women got bruised, why it was just because they had walked into doors and, in any case, why didn't Paula just take up her kids and leave? ![]() The narrator of Roddy Doyle's first novel since his Booker-winning Paddy Clark Ha, Ha, Ha, was also the subject of his 1994 television drama Family: Paula Spencer, the long-abused wife of the swaggering, terrifying Charlo. Absolutely sure, Paula?' We have met Paula before. ![]()
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