Synopsis
Winner of the Booker Prize
Winner of 'Book of the Year' at the British Book Awards
A BBC 'Big Jubilee Read'
A heart-wrenchingly moving novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction.
'An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' –...
Details
06 August 2020448 pages
9781529019278Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A heartbreaking novel, a book both beautiful and brutal . . . All that grief and sadness and misery has been turned into something tough, tender and beautifully sad.The Times
Leaves us gutted and marvelling: Life may be short, but it takes forever.New York Times
I think it’s the best first book I’ve read in many years.Karl Ove Knausgård, Guardian
Rarely does a debut novel establish its world with such sure-footedness, and Stuart’s prose is lithe, lyrical and full of revelatory descriptive insights.Alex Preston, Observer
