Your basket is empty.
-
- Books
from 2 Hours* Last Christmas
delivery dates Free UK Standard Delivery On all orders over £25 Order in time for Christmas 18th December by 1pm 2nd Class |
20th December by 1pm 1st Class Free Click & Collect From 2 hours after you order*
Published: 08/06/2023
One of the greatest living comic novelists follows up Skippy Dies and The Mark and the Void with a beautifully crafted bittersweet delight about one family desperately attempting to get through the most trying of times.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
Shortlisted for the Nero Fiction Award 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 Ltd
ISBN: 9780241353950
Number of pages: 656
Weight: 869 g
Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 43 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
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 on Skippy Dies
'Sensationally good... a wild, intelligent, angry, witty, uproariously funny, devastating novel' - Neel Mukherjee on The Mark and the Void
'Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision, unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph' - Sunday Times on Skippy Dies
'Wildly ambitious, scabrously funny, deeply humane' - The Bookseller on The Mark and the Void
You may also be interested in...
“Totally immersive”
I really loved this book, which I had as an ARC through netgalley. A complicated slice of dysfunctional family life in Ireland, with flashbacks to past and present and written from the perspective of multiple... More
“highly enjoyable”
This reminded me of Jonathan Franzen's excellent 'Crossroads'. It shares that theme of a family at a crisis point and a story told over the course of decades with each section from the perspective of... More
“A truly entertaining ride through one family’s ups and many downs.”
Oh my goodness, what a journey this book is — an incredible, all-encompassing, engrossing journey, full of mistakes, regrets, bad choices, and a family spiralling out of control. The character’s lives surely shouldn’t... More
Please sign in to write a review
Sign In / Register
Sign In
Download the Waterstones App
Would you like to proceed to the App store to download the Waterstones App?