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1529019273 
Hardback Shuggie Bain / Douglas Stuart
Year: 2020
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Hardback
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Picador, 2020
ISBN: 1529019273 9781529019278
Control number 1529019273
Description:
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the 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. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother's sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as 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.
Glasgow (Scotland), Fiction
GNR, General Fiction
Currently available 9
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£14.99
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Fav part: When Shuggie meets Leanne and forms a friendship with her although they both realise it's not the usual girl/boy relationship. Recommend? YES Why? I enjoyed reading this book despite parts being distressing and harrowing.
17/02/21
0310518083 
Paperback 
Year: 2014
Language: English
Interest category: Religion
Media class: Paperback
Classification: 220.6
Publisher: Zondervan
448 (Pbk)