Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart review – another weepy from a writer on a roll

The Booker winner’s follow-up to Shuggie Bain – a similarly stirring tale of precarious lives on a Glasgow council estate – proves his debut was no fluke

is set in the same world and at more-or-less the same time as. It turns around the same basic friction: a young man growing up in grinding poverty who, because of talent, temperament and sexuality, is particularly ill-suited to the hard-edged world of the Glasgow schemes.– the sense of discovering a new voice of coruscating brilliance – there’s a richer, deeper pleasure to be gleaned here.

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