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All information was correct to the best of our knowledge from details supplied to us but may be subject to change or inaccuracies. It won Sunday Times Memoir of the Year: "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. Granny Mac jumped off the page at me, typical of a woman of her generation and if anything like my own granny she would have had a rough surface sheltering a heart of gold. This book had me hooked and felt it wAs sad to finish it although bit of a feel good book to see how well The author has done for himself considering such a difficult upbringing.

In 2023, I moved to Canongate Books on a two-book deal and that feels like a very special sort of homecoming. 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.

Further still, there remains alcohol abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse and addiction and depression issues that far outweigh the local area. Read the book from cover to cover and believe me it is at times harrowing to accept the vivid images Barr creates.I was particularly drawn in by his style, which is beautiful without being showy and serves to make the story he's telling so immediate that you feel you could reach through the page and put your hand on him. Damian, his sister, and his Catholic mum move in with her violent new boyfriend while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the Canary. I am from those parts, and the geography, not to mention the teachers and Schools are very personal to me as they are to Barr. Those who identify as straight but non-judgemental and gay-friendly seldom had a twitch when their cocks were wired up and the homoeroticism started to play.

What distinguishes this autobiography from others is the skill of its prose and its celebration of the teachers who stepped forward to help as much as they could and outsider of intelligence, sensitivity and love.Barr’s depiction is so pungent, so earth-shattering it's a universal story of alienation – one for anyone who's ever felt desperate to escape. Damian Barr is adapting his memoir for the stage, teaming up with Scottish playwright James Ley and directed by Suba Das. The story of a life moves with an interesting pace, every moment is of great importance, stimulating sympathy and reflection, and often shining with a warm sense of humour. The invisible walls put up blocking the young non-binary, the gay, the lesbian, and those feeling like they’re constantly outsiders.