The Bee Sting (Penguin Books)

From the master of tragicomedy and award-winning author of Skippy Dies: a tour de force new novel about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is (maybe) ending... Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, a state-of-the-nation novel about one unhappy family in the midst of meltdown.'One of the most gifted novelists of his generation... Funny, angry, and unputdownable' Daily Express'I've never read anything like it... One of the few true masterpieces of this young century... Side-splitting comedy and heart-wrenching tragedy' Marlon James on Skippy Dies'Sensationally good... A wild, intelligent, angry, witty, uproariously funny, devastating novel' Neel Mukherjee on The Mark and the Void'Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision, unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph' Sunday Times on Skippy Dies'Wildly ambitious, scabrously funny, deeply humane' The Bookseller on The Mark and the Void