Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is just another example from one of many where he uses Barrytown to focus on individual people and situations from what could be any working class Irish community.

Doyle just gets better and better. After the touching hijinks of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and the poignantly powerful The Woman Who Walked into Walls, he has embarked on nothing less than a trilogy ...

Roddy Doyle’s Booker Prize-winner - a witty and poignant account of an Irish lad trying to make sense of his changing world. Read by Mark Lambert.