Shuggie Bain

By Douglas Stuart

Dua’s Monthly Read for June 2023

Service95 Book Club’s inaugural Monthly Read, 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

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