October Fiction
Sep 21, 2021
2 minutes
Life without Children
Roddy Doyle
Cape, £14.99
IN HIS 1991 novel Talking It Over, Julian Barnes compares life to invading Russia. You start off full of beans, making happy progress—but then comes “a long morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face”.
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