Shuggie Bain

Winner of the Booker PrizeWinner of ''Book of the Year'' at the British Book Awards A BBC ''Big Jubilee Read''A heart-wrenchingly moving novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years, Shuggie Bai ...

Winner of the Booker PrizeWinner of ''Book of the Year'' at the British Book Awards A BBC ''Big Jubilee Read''A heart-wrenchingly moving novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy''s doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction.''An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.'' – The judges of the Booker PrizeIt 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 phila