Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Winner: The Booker Prize 1993
Published by Secker & Warburg

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Roddy Doyle’s funny and poignant novel about a young boy trying to make sense of the world won the Booker Prize in 1993

It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can’t stand his little brother Sinbad. His best friend is Kevin, and their names are all over Barrytown, written with sticks in wet cement. They play football, lepers, and jumping to the bottom of the sea. But why didn’t anyone help him when Charles Leavy had been trying to kill him? Paddy sees everything, but he understands less and less.

Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle is a critically acclaimed writer and 1993 Booker Prize winner

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Watch the 1993 ceremony

The Booker Prize 1993 - Full Ceremony | The Booker Prizes

Watch the 1993 Booker Prize full ceremony, in which Roddy Doyle wins the prize with Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and Carol Shields is nominated with The Stone Diaries.