Global star Dua Lipa joined a prison book group to discuss Douglas Stuart's novel based on a boy growing up in Glasgow.
The Grammy-award-winning singer joined a prison book group to discuss the novel based on a boy growing up with his alcoholic mum in the city.
Shuggie Bain, which is based on author Stuart’s own childhood in Glasgow, gives a harrowing account of addiction and poverty in the 1980s. Now Dua, who has won six Brit awards, has shared her love of the story with her 88 million Instagram followers by picking it as her first Book of the Month on her lifestyle platform, Service95.
The two organisations jointly run Books Unlocked, an initiative that donates Booker Prize-shortlisted novels to prisoners and prison libraries and brings their authors into jails.
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