Shuggie’s room in the bedsit may be the end of his journey in the novel, but it’s only the beginning of Stuart’s, who won the Booker Prize last month for his semiautobiographical tale of heartbreak and hope. Released to strong reviews in February, the book gained momentum as a word-of-mouth hit during lockdown, attracting praise not only for Stuart’s window into the plague of unemployment and working-class disillusionment wrought by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government but also, perhaps more importantly, for the empathy that radiates from every page. Despite the horrors he recounts in the book, Stuart is firm in his belief that it is ultimately a “love story.”
“It’s gratifying that people have been able to break it and understand the love, the hope, and the humanity in the characters, but it makes me a little blue sometimes when I see how relevant the book is today,” says Stuart. The intense interest in the book, particularly in Britain, is due in part to its worrying parallels with the present day. From the lack of government oversight that led to a deadly fire at Grenfell Tower, a high-rise London council block, back in 2017 to the government’s reluctance to offer free school meals to children amid the pandemic this summer, the kind of social inequity that Shuggie Bain spotlights can still be keenly felt. “When we, to all intents and purposes, think we’re moving forward as a society, we’re overlooking an awful lot of people who are struggling and are left behind, and we still have an incredibly unfeeling government when it comes to that,” Stuart continues. “So that also talks to why Shuggie is really resonating right now—it’s not really a historical fiction novel at all.”
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