Service95 Recommends Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

Shuggie Bain

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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The World Of Shuggie Bain: Life In 1980s Glasgow

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