Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle

Life Without Children by Roddy DoyleA brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart rending short storiesLove 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

have at least one pet (triple the rate of the 1970s)

has sharply veered into the counterculture

it really touched my young bird-loving heart

He grows up in fields and woods

accompanies the memoir along with photographs from the early sixties

join hungry hedgehogs

decadent and violent

the Liffey

Frances Molloy

stylish and ferociously absorbing' Observer

Join Mr Panda and friends as they learn all about hand washing

but her classmate Finn doesn't seem to want to be there at all