- Published: 1 October 2010
- ISBN: 9780099530398
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $35.00
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKER PRIZE GEM











- Published: 1 October 2010
- ISBN: 9780099530398
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $35.00
Truthful, hilarious, painfully sad
Spectator
Gloriously triumphant...confirms Doyle as the best novelist of his generation
Literary Review
It is 1968. Paddy Clarke is ten years old, breathless with discovery. He reads with a child's voraciousness, collecting facts the way adults collect grey hairs and parking tickets. Doyle captures the speech patterns of childhood brilliantly, the weird logic of the incessant questions, the non-sequiturs and wonderments... Like all great comic writers, Roddy Doyle has become an explorer of the deepest places of the heart, of love and pain and loss. This is one of the most compelling novels I've read in ages, a triumph of style and perception
Irish Times
Extraordinary technical achievement and emotional force
Gillian Beer
One of the truest and funniest presentations of juvenile experience in any recent literature
Mick Imlah, Independent
Brimming with sadness, but full of fun
Sunday Times
Funny, warm and enriching.
Alan Davies, Daily Express