It can't be overstated how purely pleasurable The Bee Sting is to read. Murray's brilliant new novel, about a rural Irish clan, posits the author as Dublin's answer to Jonathan Franzen . .
. A 650-page slab of compulsive high-grade entertainment, The Bee Sting oozes pathos while ...It can't be overstated how purely pleasurable The Bee Sting is to read. Murray's brilliant new novel, about a rural Irish clan, posits the author as Dublin's answer to Jonathan Franzen .
. . A 650-page slab of compulsive high-grade entertainment, The Bee Sting oozes pathos while being very funny to boot .
. . Murray's observational gifts and A-game phrase-making render almost every page - every line, it sometimes seems - abuzz with fresh and funny insights .
. . At its core this is a novel concerned with the ties that bind, secrets and lies, love and loss.
They're all here, brought to life with captivating vigour in a first-class performance to cherish