WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023WINNER OF THE SKY ARTS AWARDS 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKERS BEST BOOKS OF 2023From one of our greatest comic novelists and the author of Skippy Dies comes a funny, thoughtprovoking story of one family desperately clinging on as their world falls apart . . .A tragicomic triumph. You wont read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year GuardianThe Barnes family is in trouble. Dickies oncelucrative car business is going under but rather than face the music, hes spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypseproof 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 bingedrink her way to her final exams. And twelveyearold 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?Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Observer, Guardian, Washington Post, Lit Hub, TIME magazine,...
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WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023WINNER OF THE SKY ARTS AWARDS 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKERS BEST BOOKS OF 2023From one of our greatest comic novelists and the author of Skippy Dies comes a funny, thoughtprovoking story of one family desperately clinging on as their world falls apart . . .A tragicomic triumph. You wont read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year GuardianThe Barnes family is in trouble. Dickies oncelucrative car business is going under but rather than face the music, hes spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypseproof 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 bingedrink her way to her final exams. And twelveyearold 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?Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Observer, Guardian, Washington Post, Lit Hub, TIME magazine,...
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