Shuggie Bain
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by Douglas Stuart
(Author)
v Winner of the Booker Prize
v Winner of 'Book of the Year' and 'Debut of
the Year' at the British Book Awards
v A BBC 'Big Jubilee Read'
'An amazingly intimate, compassionate,
gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' – The judges of the Booker Prize
'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel
of rare and lasting beauty.'
– Observer
It is 1981.
Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always
expected more from life, dreaming of greater things. But Agnes is abandoned by
her philandering husband, and as she descends deeper into drink, the children
try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save
themselves.
It is her son
Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different, he is clearly no’
right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like
the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.
Shuggie Bain lays
bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of
pride. For readers of A Little Life and Angela's Ashes, it is a heartbreaking
novel by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.
'A heartbreaking novel' – The Times
'Tender and unsentimental . . . The Billy
Elliot-ish character of Shuggie . . . leaps off the page.' – Daily Mail