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Life without children : stories / Roddy Doyle.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF DOYL	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .
AF DOYL	Adult Fiction		Lakemba .	. Available .

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ISBN	9781787333581 (paperback)
Name	Doyle, Roddy, 1958- author.
Title	Life without children : stories / Roddy Doyle.
Published	London : Jonathan Cape, 2021.
Published	©2021
Description	vii, 177 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary	A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten 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 ten, 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.
Subjects	COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Fiction
Genre	Short stories
Links to Related Works	Subject References: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Fiction . Short stories . See Also: Fiction . Authors: Doyle, Roddy, 1958- .