The Butcher Boy (novel)

The Butcher Boy
AuthorPatrick McCabe
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherPicador
Publication date
April 1992
Publication placeIreland
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages224 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN0-330-32358-X (first edition, hardback)
OCLC27810121

The Butcher Boy is a 1992 novel by Patrick McCabe.

Set in a small town in Ireland in the early 1960s, it tells the story of Francis "Francie" Brady, a schoolboy who retreats into a violent fantasy world as his troubled home life collapses.