John of John
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Publishing:21st May '26
£20.00
This title is due to be published on 21st May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback - Signed Independent Bookshop Edition£20.00(9781035086955-SIB)
Cal is a young man returning home to his father and grandmother in a small village in the Outer Hebrides. He has graduated and is out of money and his father needs him. But when he returns he will also be drawn back into a world of suppressed emotion and terrible secrecy that not only destroys his father but looks set to determine the relationship between father and son. For both Cal and John, keeping their sexuality secret threatens both their relationship and their own lives. The world is that of the weavers of the island - isolated, intense and intimate and wild.
There are sentences here that gleam and shimmer, demanding to be read and reread for their beauty and their truth * Observer *
If Shuggie was a paean to the struggles of a single mother lost on the high seas of poverty, addiction and mental illness, Young Mungo is Stuart’s flag in the sand for the hidden generations of working-class gay men * The Sunday Times *
A wonderfully gifted writer * The Guardian *
Shuggie Bain means so much to me -- Dua Lipa
Douglas Stuart has a rare gift . . . A major literary talent * The Spectator *
An enthralling writer * The Herald *
Douglas Stuart is a genius . . .[He] writes like an angel * The Washinton Post *
Stuart has cemented his status as a vital new voice for the working class * Independent *
ISBN: 9781035086955
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
400 pages