Charlie Savage

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Classic Roddy Doyle- funny, tender, true Meet Charlie Savage. Charlie is a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who's realised that he's been a woman all along . Compiled here for the first time is a whole year's worth of Roddy Doyle's hilarious series for the Irish Independent. Giving a unique voice to the everyday, he draws a portrait of a man - funny, loyal, somewhat bewildered - trying to keep pace with the modern world (if his knees don't give out first). SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC WRITING 2019 'A delight from start to finish' Irish Mail on Sunday

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A delight from start to finish. -- Max Davidson * Mail on Sunday *
A refreshingly positive take on middle age, its optimistic, warm-hearted, blokishly moving and written with a masters pin-sharp command of humour a book thats sure to be picked up and revisited time and time again. * Herald Scotland *
More than comedy or insight, this work has tenderness It does more than tickle our bellies, it warms our hearts. -- Niamh Donnelly * Irish Times *
Brilliantly funny. Heart-warmingly, vulnerably hilarious in fact. Doyle has crafted Charlie Savage with great care and has imbued him with such depth of character that I cant imagine a reader finishing the book without loving him, just a little savour every page because Charlie Savage will enrich your life as long as he is in it. -- Ceire Duggan * RTE Guide *
This portrait of an ordinary man (and one clearly past his best) is by turns hilarious and heartfelt. -- Rachel Lloyd * Economist, 1843 *

Author Bio

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eleven acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.