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Paul Murray

Biography

Paul Murray

Paul Murray was born in 1975 in Dublin. He is the author of four novels, including AN EVENING OF LONG GOODBYES, which was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. SKIPPY DIES (2010) was long-listed for the Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. THE MARK AND THE VOID (2015) was the joint winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was named one of Time’s Top 10 Fiction Books of the year. His fourth and latest novel is THE BEE STING.

Paul Murray

Books by Paul Murray

by Paul Murray - Fiction

The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under --- but Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, while their teenage daughter, Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge drink her way through her final exams. As for 12-year-old PJ, he’s on the brink of running away. If you wanted to change this story, how far back would you have to go? To the infamous bee sting that ruined Imelda’s wedding day? To the car crash one year before Cass was born? All the way back to Dickie at 10 years old, standing in the summer garden with his father, learning how to be a real man?