All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye explained

All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye
Author:Christopher Brookmyre
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English
Genre:Black humour, Satire, Crime novel
Publisher:Little Brown, London
Release Date:2005
Media Type:Print (Hardback & (Paperback)

All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye is the ninth novel by Scottish writer Chris Brookmyre published in 2005.

Plot summary

Jane Fleming, a 46-year-old housewife and grandmother, lives a quiet life in suburban East Kilbride. All that changes when her son, Ross, who works in the arms industry, is forced into hiding when his latest research attracts unwanted attention. Aided by the mysterious Bett, Jane must confront drug dealers, assassins and ruthless arms dealers in order to save her son.

Awards

All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye was the winner of the seventh Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction in 2006.[1]

It was nominated for the 2007 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Not a pig in a poke but a pig for a joke or two . Wales Online . Wales Online . . 2006-06-05 . 15 May 2013.