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Roddy Doyle: Life Without Children: The exhilarating new short story collection from the Booker Prize-winning author [2022] paperback Condition:New tor or even a mereLove and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone. 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