{"product_id":"the-bee-sting-by-paul-murray-1","title":"The Bee Sting by Paul Murray","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom one of our greatest comic novelists and the author of Skippy Dies comes a funny, thought-provoking story of one family desperately clinging on as their world falls apart . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'The finest novel that Murray has yet written . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. will surely be one of the books of 2023' Sunday Independent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Murray is a natural storyteller . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Ambitious, expansive, hugely entertaining tragicomic fiction' Irish Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCan 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'It's a thing of beauty, a novel that will fill your heart' Observer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback \/ 656 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45045674541271,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/files\/9780241984406.jpg?v=1714567295","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/the-bee-sting-by-paul-murray-1","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}