Skippy Dies

Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision, unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph ― Sunday Times

One of the most enjoyable, funny and moving reads of this year. A rare tragicomedy that's both genuinely tragic and genuinely comic ― Guardian

Darkly comic, dazzles, every line drips ideas for fun. Unputdownably funny, captivating. A masterpiece ― Metro

Ambitious, wise, funny, fiercely intelligent. The beauty of this cynical, hopeful, beautifully written book is that it builds a detailed world to explore life, the universe and everything ― Sunday Express

Hilarious, heartbreaking, totally engrossing. A triumph ― Daily Mail

Noisy, hilarious, tragic, endlessly inventive, plain brilliant. A carnival of a novel ― The Times

Novels rarely come as funny and as moving as this utterly brilliant
exploration of teenhood and the anticlimax of becoming an adult . . . Skippy Dies is intuitive, truthful and one of the finest comic novels written anywhere. Dies? Never! Skippy lives

― Irish Times

I loved Skippy Dies . . . three novels fused into one ignited tragicomic tour de force ― Times Literary Supplement

Skippy Dies is one great high-octane fizz bang of a book ― Irish Times

Extravagantly entertaining ― New York Times Book Review

A comic epic. Murray is a brilliant comic writer, but also humane and touching, and he captures the misery and elation, joy and anxiety of teenage life. A brilliant depiction of the heaven and hell of male adolescence ― Guardian

Murray's writing has earned a place in the contemporary international canon . . . Murray's characters are so three-dimensionally drawn and brought to such vivid life that they may haunt your dreams ― Irish Independent