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Life Without Children

Written by: Roddy Doyle
Narrated by: Roddy Doyle
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A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in 10 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 10 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.

©2021 Roddy Doyle (P)2021 Penguin Audio
Anthologies & Short Stories Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Short Stories World Literature

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