Douglas Stuart
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Douglas Stuart's debut novel, Shuggie Bain, brought him international acclaim after winning the 2020 Booker Prize. One year on from it's publication he joins Rachel and Alice from his home in New York to reveal just how much he and Shuggie have in common, the ways he coped with his mother's alcoholism as a child, and the dangers he faced growing up gay in 1980's Glasgow.
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