Life Without Children: Stories (Library Binding) (ISBN-13: 9781432896164)

A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending and uplifting 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, 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.

Author: Roddy Doyle
ISBN-10: 1432896164
ISBN-13: 9781432896164
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
Language: English
Published: 06/29/2022
Pages: 251
Format: Library Binding
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.60d
Large Print