Charlie Savage

Classic Roddy Doyle- funny, tender, trueMeet 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

Short-listed for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2019 (UK)

“PRAISE FOR CHARLIE SAVAGE : "A belly-achingly funny, surprisingly optimistic and heart-warming book written by a writer at the very height of their literary powers. A book to savour, and to re-read time and again ." Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction shortlist jury citation "It will come as no great surprise to learn that Charlie Savage is funny. He's 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 can't imagine a reader finishing the book without loving him, just a little.... There is something aspirational about his presentation of middle-age . Charlie may be grappling with his own mortality, but he has also found a way to celebrate it and all the little things that make up a life.... Doyle's writing is as witty and insightful as ever. Much like all that has preceded it, Charlie Savage offers moments of humour swiftly chased up by sheer heartbreak. Despite the natural pauses that the anthology format offers, you will probably find this book hard to set down.... Savour every page because Charlie Savage will enrich your life as long as he is in it ." RT”

A delight from start to finish. -- Max Davidson Mail on Sunday
A refreshingly positive take on middle age, it’s optimistic, warm-hearted, blokishly moving and written with a master’s pin-sharp command of humour… a book that’s 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 can’t 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

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of twelve 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.

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