Paul Murray The Bee Sting Paperback Book

THE MULTI AWARDWINNING NOVEL FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING COMEDIC WRITERSA tragicomic triumph. You wont read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year GuardianThe Barnes family are in trouble. Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now theyre teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and thats just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imeldas marriage is hanging by a thread straightA student Cass is careening off the rails PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully. Meanwhile the ghosts of old mistakes are rising out of the past to meet them, but everyones too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming . . .Generous, immersive, sharpwitted and devastating the sort of novel that becomes a friend for life Financial TimesPaul Murray [is] the undisputed reigning champion of epic Irish tragicomedy SpectatorAn instant classic Washington Post[An] astute, remorselessly funny novel Daily MirrorA wagyu steak of a novel . . . A classic in the mode of The Corrections The TimesWINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023WINNER OF THE SKY ARTS AWARD FOR LITERATURE 2024WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 | Paul Murray The Bee Sting Paperback Book