Shuggie Bain

Service95 Recommends Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart. Explore themes of identity and trauma in 1980s Scotland. Discover Shuggie Bain and other reviews with Service95 Recommends.    

What We Say: “Our Service95 Book Club’s first 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” – Maria Padget

What They Say: “A debut novel that reads like a masterpiece, Shuggie Bain gives voice to the kind of helpless, hopeless love that children can feel toward broken parents” – Washington Post

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Maria Padget is Service95 Book Club Director

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