Shortlisted for the 2008 Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction.
The novel's prologue won the biggest prize in the world for a single short story - the BBC National Short Story Prize.
"Sheer comic brilliance" - The Times
"The best comic novel I've ever read" - Tommy Tiernan
"Could be the finest comic novel since Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman" - The Sunday Tribune
My first novel, of which I am very fond. The adventures of teenage twin sisters Juno & Juliet, in their first year away from home. Life, love and literature, in Galway and Tipperary.
"Like Roddy Doyle in an extremely good mood" - The Washington Post
"A modern, at times brilliantly ironic reworking of the classical fairytale, with nods to Shakespeare, Austen and Beckett." - Literary Review
"Hugely entertaining" - Vogue
It Is Better To See Your Father Buried
It is better to see your father buried.
Neither Sylvia nor my mother did.
Their fathers walk away from them always
Strong-smelling and enormous.
Why don’t they turn around?
Why don’t they bend down, and kiss?