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041			_aEnglish
100			_aMurray, Paul _d1975- _eauthor _926541
245	1	4	_aThe bee sting _c/ Paul Murray.
264		1	_aLondon : _bPenguin Books, _c2024.
300			_a645 pages ; _c20 cm
520			_aThe 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?
650		0	_aFamilies _vFiction _zIreland _926545
650		0	_aFortune _vFiction _926542
650		0	_aBunkers (Fortification) _vFiction _926543
650		0	_aDysfunctional families _vFiction _924066
650		0	_aInterpersonal relations _vFiction _924021
650		0	_aSocial classes _vFiction _924096
650		0	_aFamily secrets _vFiction _923679
650		0	_aMarried people _vFiction _923930
655		0	_aPsychological fiction _922456
655		0	_aHumorous fiction _922906
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