Shuggie Bain

Winner of the Booker Prize 2020

By Douglas Stuart | Publisher: Pan Macmillan

About the book

A heart-wrenchingly moving first 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.

Editions of Shuggie Bain

Paperback
ISBN 9781529019292

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A heart-wrenchingly moving first 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.

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A heart-wrenchingly moving first 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.

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Douglas Stuart

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Pan Macmillan

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Shuggie Bain is available as paperback(ISBN 9781529019292)

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