Young Mungo
13 April 2023Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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'Beautiful and moving, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow’s housing estates' – The Observer
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain. Douglas Stuart’s Young Mungo is a vivid portrayal of working-class life in 80s Glasgow, and the deeply moving story of the...
Details
13 April 2023400 pages
9781529068788Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A touching story of forbidden love pursued in the face of sectarian violence with a plot that unfolds with all the urgency and dread of teenage yearningThe Times/The Sunday Times, ‘Books of the Year’
Stuart follows his Booker-winning Shuggie Bain with another tale of a Glasgow boy whose mother is an alcoholic. This time, however, it’s a love story, with Protestant-Catholic sectarian tensions in the background; Mungo and pigeon-fancier James are star-crossed lovers in a Jets and Sharks world. The tension of their romance is expertly sustained.The Daily Telegraph, ‘Books of the Year’
Again Douglas Stuart proves himself a wonderfully gifted writer . . . Young Mungo is the work of a true novelist.The Guardian
A dazzling modern masterpiece . . . a book of clear, honest, often dazzling intent and integrityEvening Standard
