The Woman Who Walked Into Doors. London: Jonathan Cape, 1996. First Edition. Pp, 226. Red cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. Toning to margins of contents pages (as usual with this issue) otherwise a nice bright copy.

Signed & Dated by the Author on title page.

Roddy Doyle’s first novel since winning the Booker Prize for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, in 1993. It tells the story of Paula Spencer, a thirty-nine-year-old working-class woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem.