The Bee Sting
THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NOVEL FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING COMEDIC WRITERS
'A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian
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The Barnes family are in trouble.
Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now theyâre teetering on the brink of bankruptcy â and thatâs just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imeldaâs 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 everyoneâs too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming . . .
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'Generous, immersive, sharp-witted and devastating; the sort of novel that becomes a friend for life' Financial Times
âPaul Murray [is] the undisputed reigning champion of epic Irish tragicomedyâ Spectator
âAn instant classicâ Washington Post
â[An] astute, remorselessly funny novelâ Daily Mirror
âA wagyu steak of a novel . . . A classic in the mode of The Correctionsâ The Times
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WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023
WINNER OF THE SKY ARTS AWARD FOR LITERATURE 2024
WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
The Bee Sting
THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NOVEL FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING COMEDIC WRITERS
'A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian
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The Barnes family are in trouble.
Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now theyâre teetering on the brink of bankruptcy â and thatâs just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imeldaâs 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 everyoneâs too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming . . .
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'Generous, immersive, sharp-witted and devastating; the sort of novel that becomes a friend for life' Financial Times
âPaul Murray [is] the undisputed reigning champion of epic Irish tragicomedyâ Spectator
âAn instant classicâ Washington Post
â[An] astute, remorselessly funny novelâ Daily Mirror
âA wagyu steak of a novel . . . A classic in the mode of The Correctionsâ The Times
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WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023
WINNER OF THE SKY ARTS AWARD FOR LITERATURE 2024
WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
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THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NOVEL FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING COMEDIC WRITERS
'A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian
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The Barnes family are in trouble.
Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now theyâre teetering on the brink of bankruptcy â and thatâs just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imeldaâs 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 everyoneâs too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming . . .
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'Generous, immersive, sharp-witted and devastating; the sort of novel that becomes a friend for life' Financial Times
âPaul Murray [is] the undisputed reigning champion of epic Irish tragicomedyâ Spectator
âAn instant classicâ Washington Post
â[An] astute, remorselessly funny novelâ Daily Mirror
âA wagyu steak of a novel . . . A classic in the mode of The Correctionsâ The Times
____________
WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023
WINNER OF THE SKY ARTS AWARD FOR LITERATURE 2024
WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
