Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke hahaha

We write 1968. Paddy Clarke is ten years old and has a burning desire to explore. He reads as voraciously as only children can and collects facts like adults collect gray hairs and parking tickets. He plays football with his hunting friends, plays cowboy, scratches his name into the drying concrete all over Barrytown, and sets fires. He hates his younger brother, Francis, because... because that's the way it is. And she loves her parents, but they don't seem to love each other, and Paddy wants to understand why. He sees everything around him, but he understands less and less.
Booker Prize winner Paddy Clarke, hahaha, brilliantly captures childhood's way of speaking, the strange logic of incessant questioning, the frolic, the wonder, and explores the tiniest tremors of love, pain and loss.

An honest, laugh-out-loud and painfully sad novel.