LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

From one of our greatest comic novelists and the author of Skippy Dies comes a funny, thought-provoking story of one family desperately clinging on as the world falls apart . . .

'The novel of his career . . . pure page-turning pleasure' Guardian
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The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman.

His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way to her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home.