The Bee Sting
Author(s): Paul Murray
Modern & Contemporary Literature | 2023 Longlist | 2023 Shortlist
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is in meltdown... 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 exasperated wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attentions of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, 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, in debt to local sociopath 'Ears' Moran, 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 road, 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?
Product Information
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
General Fields
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- : Penguin UK
- : Hamish Hamilton
- : 720.0
- : 28 July 2023
- : 4 Centimeters X 15.3 Centimeters X 23.4 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Paul Murray
- : Paul Murray
- : FA
- : FA
- : 400
- : 400
- : very good
- : very good
- : 823.92
- : 823.92
- : English
- : English
- : Paperback
- : Paperback