Braywatch

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Braywatch
AuthorPaul Howard
IllustratorAlan Clarke
Cover artistAlan Clarke
LanguageEnglish
SeriesRoss O'Carroll-Kelly
GenreComic novel, satire
Set inDublin and Bray, 2017 – 2018
Published3 September 2020, Sandycove[1]
Publication placeRepublic of Ireland
Media typePrint: paperback
Pages400
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823.92
Preceded bySchmidt Happens 
Followed byNormal Sheeple 

Braywatch is a 2020 book by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard and is the twentieth novel in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.[2][3][4][5]

The title refers to the town of Bray, County Wicklow and the TV show Baywatch.[6]

Ross has become rugby coach at Presentation College, Bray. His daughter Honor has become a Greta Thunberg-style environmentalist.[7]

Reception

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Writing in the Dublin Gazette, James Hendicott said that Braywatch was "exactly the kind of ludicrous frivolity that today’s Dublin needs" and that Ross is "so well-written that it’s hard to truly work out if his lack of self awareness, selfishness and deeply spoilt view on life actually make him a bad person, or just a fiercely misguided and unfaithful one who’s a little too stupid to understand fully how disgraceful he is."[8]

Braywatch was nominated for Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the 2020 Irish Book Awards.[9][10]

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