Service95 Book Club’s inaugural Book of the Month, prepare to be transported to the brutal reality of the Thatcher years in a working-class Glasgow community. It’s also an intimate study of the tenderness that survives the ravages of alcoholism in a mother-son relationship.

“I clearly have a thing for heart-breaking books and this is no exception. Yet there is so much love within the pages of this book, particularly between Shuggie and his mother Agnes” – Dua Lipa