num_pages: 192
description: When sloth and alcohol lead to a horribly botched job, two fence-builders named Tam and Richie flee their native Scotland to England, where all hell quickly breaks loose, in an offbeat novel in the British comic tradition.
language: English
title: The Restraint of Beasts
titlecomplete: The Restraint of Beasts
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Comedy, Scotland, Humor, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 3338
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: McKitterick Prize
publisher: Arcade Publishing