"Paul Murray's novel is narrated by four members of the Barnes family, Dickie who runs a car showroom, his wife Imelda, and their children Cassie and P.J.. Murray, the Guardian has written, 'is brilliant on fathers and sons, sibling rivalry, grief, self-sabotage and self-denial, as well as the terrible weakness humans have for magical thinking'."

Colm Tóibín

Paul Murray is Dublin-born author of four acclaimed novels. An Evening of Long Goodbyes (2003) was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award. Skippy Dies (2010) was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa Book. The Mark and the Void (2015) won the Bollinger Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. The Bee Sting, published in 2023, won the An Post Irish Book of the Year and the Nero Gold Prize for Book of the Year. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Kirkus Prize. It was one of the Top Ten Best Books of 2023 in The New York Times and the Washington Post, and named a Best Book of the Year by The Irish Times, The New Yorker, Time, The Independent, and others.
 
Paul’s stories and journalism have appeared in New York, Granta, The Guardian, The Paris Review, and The New York Times.