The Snapper | Litsy

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Jaysis! That was brilliant. When I was reading it, at 3am, I was worried that my giggling was going to wake people up. I can‘t believe I haven‘t read Roddy Doyle before!
It appears that these are all out of print. Not having the whole trilogy in my library is going to make me a little crazy.
#OutWithTheOldInWithTheNew (I keep forgetting my timer, but I‘m getting a lot of hours in anyway. lol)
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Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 10mo

BookNAround This was such a good giggle, right? I think I might have the whole trilogy from when it came out but it makes me sad it‘s out of print now. 10mo

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Kanesean

The Snapper | Roddy Doyle

This was a thoroughly funny book which reminded me of my trip to Ireland in the 80s.

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Snapper | Roddy Doyle

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Why haven't I read Roddy Doyle before? This novel is really funny. But there is more to it than you'd think at first sight. There is also trauma here and severe limitations by society, overcome by love and a kind of gallow's humour.

After a recent traumatic pregnancy, it also made me remember the good parts for the first time.

Can I just be adopted by the Rabbitte family now?

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Image from the 2018 stage production.

Emilymdxn My fave by Roddy Doyle is the woman who walked into doors - it‘s quite serious and big tw for domestic violence but its a really great, important book that covers dark stuff with a very light hand 6y

zsuzsanna_reads @Emilymdxn That has been on my TBR for at least a decade! Surrey libraries has the Barrytown trilogy on audiobook through RBdigital, which is perfect because I get the proper Irish accents and these books are full of Dublin slang 😀 6y

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