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iv) so is the lesson of his struggle, and this book: I escaped poverty and abuse through my own individual effort and talent, so anyone can do so? 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. Because of this, the reader can have no trouble indulging in this lovely piece of writing, supporting its hero all the way, taking the extreme brutality of those early days with a grave nod, and subsequently grinning wildly at the knowledge that Barr is writing it from the life he always wanted. When we began chatting about what it would look like on stage, I thought it would be fun to bring Maggie Thatcher and drag her into the story, rather than her just be present at the beginning of each chapter as she is in the memoir.

I wanted to snatch mini Damian away from his troubled life and tuck him into bed in an immaculate house under a perfect Laura Ashley duvet cover. 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, and AIDS--manages to fall in love dancing to Madonna in Glasgow's only gay club. Damian’s experiences skip from the sad to the joyful, the funny, the silly, the universality of being a kid. There are younger and older versions of me in the play, which will explore what they both need to survive, and how that changes through the course of the play. Still, I enjoyed this well enough as memoirs go, and I would certainly recommend it if you loved Nigel Slater’s memoir mentioned above and/or Boy Erased. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Meanwhile, in small-town Scotland, eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mother rips her wedding ring off and packs their bags. It feels like quite a provocative thing to do in Scotland, but it's not going to be fandom by any means. Obviously, any memoir /autobiography set in the 80s and 90s is going to be compelling for those of us who were also young In those decades.A childhood growing up in 1980's Scotland (Not Britain) where Maggie Thatcher's `reign' is about to bring the demise of the town of Motherwell. Especially in a small town of hardened steel workers, alcoholism and depression deepened further by poverty and fear. Rather, it is about a life of someone who has made that life worthwhile, and successful, in the present day, but who had to travel a rough road to get there. Maggie Thatcher emerges from the rubble, dusty but defiant and somehow in the living room of 8-year-old Damian Barr in Newarthill, North Lanarkshire. I am a huge fan of Damian Barr's The Literary Salon podcast (link below) and have been looking forward to this book for ages.