Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music,he's spending his days in the woods,building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman.
His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay while their teenage daughter Cass,formerly top of her class,seems determined to binge-drink her way to her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home.
Where did it all go wrong A patch of ice on the tarmac,a casual favour to a charming stranger,a bee caught beneath a bridal veil - can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life And if the story has already been written - is there still time to find a happy ending
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241353950Number of pages: 656Weight: 869 gDimensions: 240 x 162 x 43 mm
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Praise for Paul Murray:
'One of the most gifted novelists of his generation... funny,angry,and unputdownable'-Daily Express
'I've never read anything like it... one of the few true masterpieces of this young century... Side-splitting comedy and heart-wrenching tragedy'- Marlon James onSkippy Dies
'Sensationally good...a wild,intelligent,angry,witty,uproariously funny,devastating novel'- Neel Mukherjee onThe Mark and the Void
'Savagely funny,brimful of wit,energy,poetry and vision,unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph'-Sunday TimesonSkippy Dies
'Wildly ambitious,scabrously funny,deeply humane'-The BookselleronThe Mark and the Void
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