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Young Mungo

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14 April 2022
400 pages
9781529068795
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

A touching story of forbidden love pursued in the face of sectarian violence with a plot that unfolds with all the urgency and dread of teenage yearning
Stuart follows his Booker-winning Shuggie Bain with another tale of a Glasgow boy whose mother is an alcoholic. This time, however, it’s a love story, with Protestant-Catholic sectarian tensions in the background; Mungo and pigeon-fancier James are star-crossed lovers in a Jets and Sharks world. The tension of their romance is expertly sustained.
Again Douglas Stuart proves himself a wonderfully gifted writer . . . Young Mungo is the work of a true novelist.
A dazzling modern masterpiece . . . a book of clear, honest, often dazzling intent and integrity