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1529019273 
Hardback Shuggie Bain
Publication year: 2020
Language: English
Media Hardback
Classification: F
Publisher: Picador, 2020
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 1529019273 9781529019278
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It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find
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A well written book but the story is a bit sad. Life in Glasgow in the 80s & 90s in the tenements was pretty grim particularly from a young boy who is a bit different, with an alcoholic mother and and absent father. In saying that well worth reading.
30/04/21
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1529068797 
eBook 
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media eBook
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Resource type: Electronic material
1 online resource (ebook)
152901929X
Paperback 
Year: 2021
Media Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
430p (Pbk)
I've been living with Shuggie and his little family over many years in various places in Glasgow. No
29/03/22
1529019303
eBook
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media eBook
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Electronic material
1 online resource (ebook)
A harrowing read but shows the difficulties of impoverished communities and how the effects of pover
09/07/21
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