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Maggie & Me (Paperback)
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A unique, tender and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of
small town Scotland during the Margaret Thatcher years
________________________ 'Shocking and funny in equal measure, and
will have you weeping with laughter and sorrow' Independent on
Sunday 'A work of stealthy genius' Maggie O'Farrell 'Certain
memoirs catch a moment and seem to define it, bottle it ... hugely
entertaining' Sunday Times It's 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows
apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Miraculously, Margaret Thatcher
survives. In small-town Scotland, eight-year-old Damian Barr
watches in horror as his mum rips her wedding ring off and packs
their bags. He knows he, too, must survive. Damian, his sister and
his Catholic mum move in with her sinister new boyfriend while his
Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the Canary.
Divided by sectarian suspicion, the community is held together by
the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks. But darkness threatens as
Maggie takes hold: she snatches school milk, smashes the unions and
makes greed good. Following Maggie's advice, Damian works hard and
plans his escape. He discovers that stories can save your life and
- in spite of violence, strikes, AIDS and Clause 28 - manages to
fall in love dancing to Madonna in Glasgow's only gay club. Maggie
& Me is a touching and darkly witty memoir about surviving
Thatcher's Britain; a story of growing up gay in a straight world
and coming out the other side in spite of, and maybe because of,
the iron lady. Damian Barr's critically acclaimed debut novel, YOU
WILL BE SAFE HERE, also available now.
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