The Bee Sting by Paul Murray wins the Nero Book Prize

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By Yasmin Rufo and Charlotte Gallagher BBC News

Irish author Paul Murray has won the Nero Gold Book of the Year award for his fourth novel , The Bee Sting.By Yasmin Rufo and Charlotte Gallagher BBC News

Irish author Paul Murray has won the Nero Gold Book of the Year award for his fourth novel, The Bee Sting. p>

The book tells the story of a middle-class Irish family, amid the effects of the Irish banking crisis according to 2008 have detrimental consequences on family finances.

The Nero Awards are open to any writer living in the United Kingdom or Ireland.

The president of the jury, author Bernardine Evaristo, said it was an "ambitious and spellbinding novel", calling Murray " extremely gifted storyteller.

Evaristo, a former Booker Prize winner, added that The Bee Sting was "written with great wit and humanity" and that the novel was "both epic and intimate." She was joined on the judging panel by BBC journalist James Naughtie and Susie Dent, who appears in the " dictionary corner" on Countdown on Channel 4.

They said: "The writing is both accomplished and very readable, the characters shine and the story arcs The individual members of the family are all equally compelling and captivating."

Murray received a £30,000 cash prize for his win for his fourth novel , which was also partly inspired by Brex...