Snapper

Nineteen-year-old Sharon Rabbitte is pregnant and speculation is rife in her Barrytown community as to the identity of the baby's father. Could her condition be the result of a drunken encounter with a Spanish sailor - as Sharon hints - or is the real daddy the middle-aged Mr. Burgess, one of her own father's pub buddies? Find out in The Snapper an uproarious, unsentimental look at the ups and downs of family life in working class Dublin from Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle.

Meet the Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne''er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes. When the older sister announces her pregnancy, the family is forced to rally together and discover the strangeness of intimacy. But the question remains: which friend of the family is the father of Sharon''s child?

Roddy Doyle is the author of five previous novels, including a Booker Prize nominee, The Van, and a Booker Prize winning international bestseller Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. He has also written several screenplays, most recently When Brendan Met Trudy. His first children's book, The Giggler Treatment, will be published in September by Scholastic. He lives in Dublin.