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Miraculously, Margaret Thatcher survives. In small-town Scotland, eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mum rips her wedding ring off and packs their bags. He knows he, too, must survive. Damian, his sister and his Catholic mum move in with her sinister new boyfriend while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the Canary.

Divided by sectarian suspicion, the community is held together by the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks.

Chapter 32. Crossing the Borderline: Post-devolution Scottish Lesbian and Gay Writing

But darkness threatens as Maggie takes hold: she snatches school milk, smashes the unions and makes greed good. Following Maggie's advice, Damian works hard and plans his escape. He discovers that stories can save your life and - in spite of violence, strikes, AIDS and Clause 28 - manages to fall in love dancing to Madonna in Glasgow's only gay club.

Damian Barr, I suspect, is about to do something of the same with this hugely entertaining book Full to the brim with poignancy, humour, brutality and energetic and sometimes shimmering prose, the book confounds one's assumptions about those years and drenches the whole era in an emotionally charged comic grandeur.

His account of growing up under Thatcher's regime defines the experience of a generation. His childhood, evoked with such cheek-biting tenderness, now seems more real and more Technicolor than my own. Non-EU customers : Shipments to countries outside of the European Union will not be affected, but you may still incur customs charges.

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