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THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NOVEL FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING COMEDIC WRITERS’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 theyre teetering on the brink of bankruptcyand thats just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imeldas 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 everyones 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 TimesPaul Murray [is] the undisputed reigning champion of epic Irish tragicomedy SpectatorAn instant classic Washington Post[An] astute, remorselessly funny novel Daily MirrorA wagyu steak of a novel . . . A classic in the mode of The Corrections The Times____________WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023WINNER OF THE SKY ARTS AWARD FOR LITERATURE 2024WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023