num_pages: 446
description: Colette Jones has had problems of her own with alcohol, but now it seems as though her whole family is in danger of turning to booze. Her oldest son, Janus, the family's golden boy, has wasted his talents as a concert pianist. His drinking sprees with his brother-in-law, Bill, a pseudo-Marxist supermarket butcher who sees alcohol as central to the proletarian revolution, have turned violent and landed him in trouble with the police. Meanwhile Colette's recently widowed older brother is desperate to numb his grief. This is a darkly funny novel about a quirky, troubled family as it lurches from farce to tragedy to pub and back again.
language: English
title: I'll Go to Bed at Noon
titlecomplete: I'll Go to Bed at Noon (The Jones Trilogy, #2)
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Modern, 21st Century, Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 531
series: The Jones Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: RSL Encore Award
publisher: W. W. Norton  Company