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
Julian Gough
My name is Tristan Goodfellow. I am a member of Galway BookClub (URL above). The next book we will be reading (after The Third Policeman...which is coincidental seeing as I see a reference to it in one of your critic's reviews) is Jude Level 1 and we will be discussing it on the 27th October in The Cottage Bar, Salthill. Is there any possibility at all that you might be in Galway to attend the meeting?
Recently, the author of Barbelo's Blood attended the discussion of his book and the members all thought it was brilliant to get an insight into the thinking behind the story. I know this is a long shot but it's worth a try I suppose. I'm writing this from the Quad in NUI Galway :)
Thanks
Tristan