The Breezes

by Joseph O'Neill

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A brilliant and darkly comic novel from the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of `Netherland’.

Fourteen years ago Mary Breeze was killed by lightning – it should have been all the bad luck that the Breeze family were due but, as John Breeze is about to find out, this couldn't be further from the truth. `The Breezes’ is John Breeze's account of his family's most hellish fortnight – when insurance policies, security systems and lucky underpants are pitted against redundancy, burglary and relegation – and lose. John (a failing chair-maker) and his father (railway manager and rubbish football referee)...

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  • ISBN13 9780007383719
  • Publish Date 1 November 2012 (first published 16 October 1995)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd