Shuggie Bain

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 themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest.Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother’s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.

'You will never forget Shuggie Bain. Scene by scene, this book is a masterpiece.' -- Kirkus Reviews, starred

Douglas Stuart was born and raised in Glasgow. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he moved to New York, where he began his design career. He has led design teams for Calvin Klein, Banana Republic and Jack Spade. Angus is a Scottish actor and voiceover artist based in London and Glasgow. He has worked in television, regional theatre, voiceover, video games and motion capture. Angus trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has appeared on the West End as Bernard in Yes Prime Minister and on television as Sergeant Troy in The Heart of Thomas Hardy with Griff Rhys-Jones.

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