SHUGGIE BAIN

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020. A heart-wrenching moving first novel... Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attemp t to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction. Theres no way to fake the life experience that forms the bedrock of Dougl as Stuarts wonderful Shuggie Bain. No way to fake the talent either. Shuggie will knock you sideways, Richard Russo. Every now and then a novel comes along that feels necessary and inevitable. Ill never forget Shuggie and Agnes or the incredibly detailed Glasgow they inhabi...[Read more]