The Bee Sting

Paul Murray

The Bee Sting
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
30 April 2024
Pages
656
ISBN
9780241984406

The Bee Sting

Paul Murray

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a 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 dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling off her jewellery on eBay, he's busy building an apocalypse-proof bunker in the woods. Meanwhile their teenage daughter is veering off the rails, in thrall to a toxic friendship, and her little brother is falling into the black hole of the internet...

Where did it all go wrong? The present is in crisis but the causes lie deep in the past. How long can this unhappy family wait before they have to face the truth? And if the story has already been written, is there still time to find a happy ending?

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