From Paul Murray's The Bee Sting to Zadie Smith's The Fraud, and a companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four - this year's fiction highlights The book I've recommended most this year - and had the most enthusiastic feedback about, a whopping 656 pages later - is without doubt Paul Murray's Booker-shortlisted tragicomedy, The Bee Sting (Hamish Hamilton). This story of an Irish family's tribulations told from four points of view combines freewheeling hilarity with savage irony, surprise reveals and genera...
From Paul Murray's The Bee Sting to Zadie Smith's The Fraud, and a companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four - this year's fiction highlights The book I've recommended most this year - and had the most enthusiastic feedback about, a whopping 656 pages later - is without doubt Paul Murray's Booker-shortlisted tragicomedy, The Bee Sting (Hamish Hamilton). This story of an Irish family's tribulations told from four points of view combines freewheeling hilarity with savage irony, surprise reveals and genera...
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