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02459aam a2200361 i 4500 001 E83371E24D4311EEBB1CF29156ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230907010029 008 230201s2023 enk 000 f eng d 020 $a 0241353963 020 $a 9780241353967 020 $a 0241353955 020 $a 9780241353950 035 $a (OCoLC)1376272733 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCF $d QGK $d STF $d NDD $d SILO 043 $a e-ie--- 050 4 $a PR6113 U78 B44 2023 100 1 $a Murray, Paul, $d 1975- $e author. $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000110091012 245 14 $a The bee sting / $c Paul Murray. 264 1 $a London : $b Hamish Hamilton, $c 2023. 300 $a 645 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 8 $a "The 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. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewellery on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attentions of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, 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, in debt to local sociopath 'Ears' Moran, is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home. The present is in meltdown, but the causes lie deep in the past. If you wanted to change this story, how far back would you have to go? To the car crash twelve months before Cass was born? To the infamous bee sting which ruined Imelda's wedding day? All the way back to Dickie at ten years old, trembling before his father in the garden, learning how to be a man? Is it possible that a single moment of bad luck set in motion everything that came after? And does that mean the fate of the Barnes family is already sealed? They are facing a reckoning. If they can't change the past, or rewrite the story they have already lived, is it too late for a happy ending?"-- $c Dust jacket. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fortune $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Bunkers (Fortification) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Dysfunctional families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Finance, Personal $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Ireland $v Fiction. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780241984413 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305042141.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E83371E24D4311EEBB1CF29156ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search