The bee sting /
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 jewelry on eBay, while their teenage d...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | 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 jewelry on eBay, while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way through her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home. Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the tarmac, a casual favor to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil. Can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life? And if the story has already been written, is there still time to find a happy ending? |
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| Item Description: | Illustrations on endpapers. "Originally published in 2023 by Hamish Hamilton, Great Britain"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 645 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780374600303 0374600309 |