Young Mungo: the No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller the new
 
 
 
 
Shortlisted for the Booktok Book of the Year.
The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller.
‘Prepare your hearts, for Douglas Stuart is back. After the extraordinary success of Shuggie Bain, his second novel, Young Mungo, is another beautiful and moving book, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow’s housing estates.’ – TheObserver
The extraordinary, powerful second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo is both a vivid portrayal of working-class life in 80s Glasgow, and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men.
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.
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.
 
 
 
 
        
                        
                
Publisher
                
Picador; Main Market edition (13 April 2023)
            
                        
                
Paperback
                
400 pages
            
                        
                
Dimensions
                
13 x 2.6 x 19.7 cm
            
                        
                
Language
                
English
            
                        
                
Book Type
                
Paperback
            
                        
                
ISBN-10
                
1529068789
            
                        
                
ISBN-13
                
978-1529068788
            
                        
                
Reading age
                
18 years and up
            
                    
         
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