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
Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 12:19AM 
The really rather terrifically wonderful Susie Maguire just sent me a nice picture of me sitting down in Dubrovnik. I won't explain what the heck I am doing, or why I appear to have a tinted monocle.
A chap needs to maintain an air of mystery.
My shoes are definitely the stars of this photo. They look like they're celebrating getting their own TV series.
Reader Comments (4)
How you doing? I know it's been a long time, I'm having the roughest time so even finding the time to write such a little comment for me is almost immposible.
Don't worry I still get in this blog and enjoy every little moment, I really liked the Pig Kidnaping post, he had it coming the bastard :P
Hope you're doing fine, and i think you do. Haven't read yet the books you recommended me, shame of me, just didn't find the time, emotionaly and phisicaly.
Ariel.
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Susie, thanks again for the photo. And I love being described as an alchemist transported into another century. How did you find out, I haven't told anyone...
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