Join us in the Riverview Room for a very special online event with Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle, zooming in from Ireland. We are excited to have been invited to be part of this event, which is being organized by Finding Our Voices - Breaking the Silence on Domestic Violence. In this unique online book club going on five years, authors talk about the domestic abuse in their books. You don’t need to read the book to join the discussion. Free and open to everyone.

The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
by Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle will be joining us from Ireland for a discussion over Zoom of his brilliant trilogy on Paula Spencer, starting with The Women Who Walked Into Doors, then to Paula Spencer, and right up to this year's The Women Behind the Door. His first book was earth shattering to me, when I read it --twice in a row-- without consciously understanding that I was also living this kind of life, albeit in a higher socio-economic level than Paula. The latest book is a devastating and spot-on examination of domestic abuse's impact to the mother and daughter relationship.

“Paula Spencer is the character I’m most proud of. I met a group of women who’d been in violent relationships, years ago - when The Women first came out.  They’d all read the book, and one of them said: ‘How did you get inside my fuckin’ head?’  It’s the best review I ever got.”

—Roddy Doyle in a 2019 letter to Patrisha McLean, CEO and Founder of Finding Our Voices