The miners’ children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother’s sense of snobbish propriety. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. 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).īut Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town.Īs she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves.
Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive.Īgnes Bain has always expected more from life. Winner of the Booker Prize 2020Winner of ‘Book of the Year’ at the British Book Awards 2021Winner of ‘Debut of the Year’ at the British Book Awards 2021Shortlisted for the US National Book Award for Fiction 2020’Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.’ – Observer ‘We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.’ The judges of the Booker Prize It is 1981. This edition contains a bookplate signed by the author
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