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"The Barnes Family" is a tragicomic novel that has won multiple awards and is considered one of the best books of 2023. It follows the Barnes family, who are in financial trouble and facing personal crises. The novel is praised for its sharp wit, generosity, and ability to blend tragedy and comedy.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 656 pages
Publication date: 02 May 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Winner of the Nero Book Award for Fiction 2023
Winner of an Post Irish Book of the Year 2023
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
Shortlisted for the Writers Prize for Fiction 2024
Shortlisted for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year 2024
One of Sarah Jessica Parker's Best Books of 2023
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, Irish Times, The Oldie, Daily Mail, i Paper, Independent, The Standard, The Times, Kirkus, Daily Express, City A.M.
A tragicomic triumph.
You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year
Guardian
The Barnes family are in trouble.
Until recently, they ran the biggest business in town, now they're teetering on the brink of bankruptcy – and that's just the start of their problems.
Dickie and Imelda's marriage is hanging by a thread; straight-A student Cass is careening off the rails; PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully.
Meanwhile, the ghosts of old mistakes are rising out of the past to meet them, but everyone's too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming.
Generous, immersive, sharp-witted, and devastating; the sort of novel that becomes a friend for life
Financial Times
‘Paul Murray [is] the undisputed reigning champion of epic Irish tragicomedy’
Spectator
‘An instant classic’
Washington Post
‘[An] astute, remorselessly funny novel’
Daily Mirror
‘A wagyu steak of a novel . . . A classic in the mode of The Corrections’
The Times
Weight: 518g
Dimension: 129 x 199 x 44 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241984406
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