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Scottish BookAuthor: Douglas Stuart
£9.95 Original price was: £9.95.£7.46Current price is: £7.46.
A 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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Young Mungo is a fierce and tender novel about love, danger, and the courage it takes to be yourself when the world demands otherwise.
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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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£9.95Original price was: £9.95.£7.46Current price is: £7.46.