Author(s): Anna Burns

Fiction

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This novel tracks the tragi-comic fortunes of the Lovett family of Belfast during the Troubles: the violent father; the shrewdly mad mother; malevolent Mick; and dreamy Amelia, our narrator, who records their antics over the years (fights, school, kickings, and the IRA and the RUC vying for the title of Most Inept Police).

An acclaimed debut novel, No Bones was shortlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize for Fiction. It's a devastatingly effective and darkly funny story about the effects of social and political trauma on individual people.