The Bee Sting
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
by Paul Murray
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Pub Date Jun 08 2023 | Archive Date Not set
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Description
'It's a thing of beauty, a novel that will fill your heart' Observer
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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 falling apart...
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?
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'I experienced every possible human emotion while reading The Bee Sting... Its ambition and scale are astonishing. A remarkable feat of storytelling' Mark O'Connell
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780241353950 |
| PRICE | £18.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 656 |
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Featured Reviews
Sarah A, Educator
I really loved this book. A complicated slice of dysfunctional family life in Ireland, with flashbacks to past and present and written from the perspective of multiple different characters. Many of the characters were very unlikeable, but they all felt authentic. The story unfolded in a really interesting way, and I was totally gripped at the end by what would happen.
The only thing that threw me was the fact that there were absolutely no full stops, commas etc throughout the whole book, which did require certain lines to be reread twice, but overall I thought it was fantastic and will be buying a copy for friends on publication.
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