{"product_id":"life-without-children-stories-tpb-w2","title":"Roddy Doyle: Life Without Children: Stories [2021] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e***A \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS AUTUMN***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold with Doyle's signature warmth, wit and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, \u003ci\u003eLife Without Children\u003c\/i\u003e cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Doyle, Roddy","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42324843823289,"sku":"9781787333581","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":50558677418323,"sku":"XG81787333581","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47077338317139,"sku":"XV81787333581","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":47694191952211,"sku":"XE81787333581","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/doyle-roddy-roddy-doyle-life-without-children-stories-2021-paperback-59912023834963.jpg?v=1741691998","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/life-without-children-stories-tpb-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}