Carl Kinsella

Yeah, and I've been hearing about this book for ages and I was quite pleased to get a chance to get an early copy.

I mean, it is, I mean, I'm a great lover of satire.

I mean, I sort of grew up loving sort of Kurt Vonnegut and I'm actually re-listening to, I'm listening to Catch-22, which I've read many times.

I've never actually listened to the audio and I'm a great lover of satire.

Not by Kurt Vonnegut, though.

No, no, that's with Joseph Heller.

But I mean, in terms of satire, and this is a satire, you know, about a dysfunctional American family in a small coastal town.

And I think, you know, I found it absurdist, which it should be, and a little silly and witty and completely charming.

And I love the characters.

It was a complete sugar rush.

Yeah, I've seen it likened to The Bee Sting, you know, Paul Murray's sort of book, a shortlisted book.

To me, this is a bit like a Jonathan Franzen or a Paul Murray on speed and laxatives.

Yeah.

Because it's incredibly fast-paced compared to what they write.

You mean it goes right through you.

Yeah, and it's not as deep as that.

It's almost, I think, written for a generation, and I don't mean this in a negative way in terms of attention spans, but, I mean, people like Franzen and Paul Murray, I mean, they're quite heavy books and dense books.

This one is a romp.

Yes.

And so I think it's written for that sort of audience.