Bee sting
Murray, Paul
Bee sting - New Delhi: Hamish Hamilton, 2023. - 645p.: pbk.: 24cm.
A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian
The Barnes family are in trouble. 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. 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 . . .
'Generous, immersive, sharp-witted and devastating; the sort of novel that becomes a friend for life' Financial Times
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309598/the-bee-sting-by-murray-paul/9780241984406
9780241353967
Novel
Rural Irish Clan
Funny
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Booker Prize
823.92 MUR
Bee sting - New Delhi: Hamish Hamilton, 2023. - 645p.: pbk.: 24cm.
A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian
The Barnes family are in trouble. 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. 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 . . .
'Generous, immersive, sharp-witted and devastating; the sort of novel that becomes a friend for life' Financial Times
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309598/the-bee-sting-by-murray-paul/9780241984406
9780241353967
Novel
Rural Irish Clan
Funny
Fiction
Booker Prize
823.92 MUR
