Shuggie Bain

<p><b>Winner of the Booker Prize<br>Winner of 'Book of the Year' at the British Book Awards <br>A BBC 'Big Jubilee Read'<br><br>A heart-wrenchingly moving novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years, <i>Shuggie Bain</i> tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction.<br><br>'An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' &ndash; The judges of the Booker Prize</b><br><br>It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life, dreaming of greater things. But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and 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.<br><br>It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is diff