Shuggie Bain Winner of the Booker Prize by Douglas Stuart Debut of the Year Paperback
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9781529019292Winner of the Booker Prize Winner of 'Book of the Year' and 'Debut of the Year' at the British Book Awards A BBC 'Big Jubilee Read' 'An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' – The judges of the Booker Prize
'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' – Observer
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, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves.