The Butcher Boy (Tie-In)

215pages. in8. broché. "I was thinking how right ma was -Mrs. Nugent all smiles when she met us and how are you getting on Mrs and young Francis are you both well?. what she was really saying was: Ah hello Mrs Pig how are you and look Philip do you see what's coming now -The Pig Family!"This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical, portrait of the descent into madness of a young killer in small-town Ireland. "Imagine Huck Finn crossed with Charlie Starkweather," said The Washington Post. Short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award and England's prestigious Booker Prize.