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SHUGGIE BAIN - DOUGLAS STUART KARTONIERT (TB)

Winner of the Booker Prize Winner of 'Book of the Year' and 'Debut of the Year' at the British
Book Awards The Million-Copy Bestseller    'An amazingly intimate  compassionate  gripping
portrait of addiction  courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize    ' Shuggie Bain
means so much to me. It is such a powerfully written story . . . I love a heartbreak book but
there is so much love within this one  particularly between Shuggie and his mother Agnes.' -
Dua Lipa   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  her 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. 
'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' - The Observer   'A
heartbreaking novel.' - The Times   'Tender and unsentimental . . . The Billy Elliot-ish
character of Shuggie . . . leaps off the page.' - Daily Mail

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