Life Without Children Stories
***A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS AUTUMN*** 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. 'Roddy Doyle is an absolute genius' J.K. Rowling 'The undisputed laureate of ordinary lives' The Times
Reviews
Eva Ströberg@cphbirdlady
Roddy Doyle - Life without children . ⭐️⭐️ . I thought this book would be interesting, but on the contrary, I found it a bit dull. The book is a collection of short stories during Covid time in Ireland, how people who don’t have children, or who have lost children, or those who pretend that they don’t have children, cope with their lives and lockdown in covid time. . Two stars because at least the stories are short and didn’t pain me much to read them to the end
Melissa Railey@melrailey