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World Service,19 Feb 2021,23 mins
Douglas Stuart: Stories of tender souls in tough places
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Stephen Sackur speaks to the Booker prize-winning author Douglas Stuart. His novel, Shuggie Bain, centres on a boy growing up amid poverty, addiction and intolerance in Glasgow. There are deep parallels with his own life. How does he extract so much love from hardship?
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