Maggie & Me
Synopsis
A unique, tender and witty memoir of coming of age, coming out and somehow surviving the tough streets of small town Scotland during the Margaret Thatcher years.
Author's Biography
Damian Barr has been a journalist for The Times for ten years, writes plays for Radio 4 and features for titles including the Independent, Telegraph, Guardian and Granta. He is the author of Get It Together, featured on Richard & Judy, and host of the Shoreditch House Literary Salon.
Reviews
Shocking and funny in equal measure, and will have you weeping with laughter and sorrow - Independent on Sunday
Timely confessional – zestfully observed, sharply written, and sprinkled with more lyricism and humour than a memoir of misery in Motherwell suggests - Independent
Unlike most volumes of this kind, Maggie & Me is short on jokes and long on raw, pungent atmosphere. Barr has a keen eye for wincingly evocative detail... Expressed with a kind of grim lyricism - New Statesman
A marvellous memoir – wrenching, funny and wise. I loved it! - Joanne Harris
Price £14.99