The Butcher Boy
06 March 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
A modern classic of Irish fiction, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize.
When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent.
Francie Brady is a small-town rascal who spends his days turning a blind eye to the...
Details
06 March 2025256 pages
9781035065226Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Brilliant, unique . . . reading fiction will never be the same againRoddy Doyle
The most astonishing Irish novel for many years, a masterpieceSunday Independent
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 decadeNeil Jordan
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 RipperObserver
