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Scottish BookYoung Mungo – The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller (Paperback)
Author: Douglas Stuart
£9.95
ScotlandSet in GlasgowComing of AgeDomestic DramaGrief & LossLiterary FictionUrban Gritty
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Add for £10A tender, gritty coming-of-age novel in 1990s Glasgow, following Protestant Mungo and Catholic James as their secret romance blooms amid violence. Ideal for readers of emotional, working-class, queer literary fiction.
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Why we chose this book
Young Mungo is a fierce and tender novel about love, danger, and the courage it takes to be yourself when the world demands otherwise.
Our summary description
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Young Mungo is set in a Glasgow shaped by poverty, violence and rigid ideas of masculinity. Mungo and James grow up on opposite sides of a sectarian divide, one Protestant, one Catholic, in neighbouring housing schemes where loyalty is enforced through fear and reputation is earned through brutality.
In this unforgiving environment, their connection is both tender and dangerous. As their feelings deepen, they imagine a life beyond the city’s grey streets and inherited hatreds. Yet every moment together carries risk. Discovery would bring consequences neither of them can safely face.
Written with compassion and restraint, Young Mungo explores love, class and survival in a world that allows little room for vulnerability. From the author of Shuggie Bain, this novel offers a stark and intimate portrait of youth, desire and the cost of being different in modern Scotland.
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