The number one Sunday Times bestseller 'A touching, tender tale of
boy meets boy in the bleak tenements of Glasgow . . . Superb' - The
Times 'Best Summer Reading' 'Love and hope across the religious
divide in a fervent, gritty and emotionally engrossing novel' -The
Guardian 'Best Reads For Summer' 'Writing of transcendent beauty' -
The Financial Times 'Best Summer Books' The extraordinary, powerful
second novel from the Booker prizewinning author of Shuggie Bain,
Young Mungo is both a vivid portrayal of working-class life and the
deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men:
Mungo and James. Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and
Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught
between two of Glasgow's housing estates where young working-class
men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial
battles for the sake of reputation. They should be sworn enemies if
they're to be seen as men at all, and yet they become best friends
as they find a sanctuary in the doocot that James has built for his
prize racing pigeons. As they begin to fall in love, they dream of
escaping the grey city, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true
self from all those around him, especially from his elder brother
Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. But
the threat of discovery is constant and the punishment unspeakable.
When Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in
Western Scotland, with two strange men behind whose drunken banter
lie murky pasts, he needs to summon all his inner strength and
courage to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and
James might still have a future. Imbuing the everyday world of its
characters with rich lyricism, Douglas Stuart's Young Mungo is a
gripping and revealing story about the meaning of masculinity, the
push and pull of family, the violence faced by so many queer
people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.
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