TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doyle, Roddy,
TI  - Life without children: stories 
SN  - 9781787333581
AV  - PR6054.O95 L54 2021
U1  - 823.914 23
PY  - 2021///
PB  - Jonathan Cape Ltd, 
KW  - COVID-19 (Disease)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
KW  - Public health administration
KW  - Families
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Short stories
N1  - "Ten short"--Cover; Box sets -- The curfew -- Life without children -- Gone -- Nurse -- Masks -- The charger -- The funeral -- Worms -- The five lamps
N2  - 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
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