About the author
Paul Murray is an Irish novelist whose books combine social comedy with institutional, economic, and family pressure. His characters often sustain elaborate explanations for their lives until several private failures converge in public.
Skippy Dies is set around a Dublin boarding school, and The Mark and the Void uses banking after the financial crisis. The Bee Sting follows a family whose dealership, marriage, friendships, and future are all becoming unstable at once.
Where to start
Start with The Bee Sting for Murray's large family novel, Skippy Dies for school and adolescence, or The Mark and the Void for his comic treatment of finance.
