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The Butcher Boy

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15 December 2014
224 pages
9781447275176
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Brilliant, unique . . . reading fiction will never be the same again
The most astonishing Irish novel for many years, a masterpiece
The Butcher Boy takes Irish literature to a place it has never been before. Both familiar and extraordinary, it is the most significant novel to emerge from Ireland this decade
An insidious, funny, breathtakingly horrific novel set in small-town Ireland, switching from mischief to madness as an adolescent obsession turns Dennis the Menace into Jack the Ripper