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Shuggie Bain

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First published: 2020
Pages: 401

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Read online or download Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart for free. This is a poignant novel set in 1980s Glasgow, Scotland. The story revolves around young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy growing up in run-down public housing. His mother, Agnes, grapples with alcoholism, while the city faces the impact of Thatcher’s policies and a notorious drugs epidemic. The novel explores family dynamics, resilience, and the struggle for survival in a harsh environment.

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Douglas Stuart

Worked as a fashion designer in New York for twenty years and wrote Shuggie Bain in the evenings, over ten of them, without telling many people. It follows a boy in 1980s Glasgow trying and failing to save his mother from alcoholism through Thatcher's deindustrialisation. Thirty-two publishers rejected it. It won the Booker in 2020.