The Bee Sting - Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023

THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NOVEL FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING COMEDIC WRITERS<BR><BR>'A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian____________<BR><BR>The Barnes family are in trouble.<BR>Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now they're teetering on the brink of bankruptcy - and that's just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imelda's marriage is hanging by a thread; straight-A student Cass is careening off the rails; PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully.<BR>Meanwhile the ghosts of old mistakes are rising out of the past to meet them, but everyone's too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming . . .<BR>____________<BR><BR>'Generous, immersive, sharp-witted and devastating; the sort of novel that becomes a friend for life' Financial Times<BR><BR>'Paul Murray [is] the undisputed reigning champion of epic Irish tragicomedy' Spectator<BR><BR>'An instant classic' Washington Post<BR><BR>'[An] astute, remorselessly funny novel' Daily Mirror<BR><BR>'A wagyu steak of a novel . . . A classic in the mode of The Corrections' The Times<BR>____________<BR>WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023<BR>WINNER OF THE SKY ARTS AWARD FOR LITERATURE 2024<BR>WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023<BR>