Dawn O'Porter

Sep 22, 2024 | msn.com | Dawn O'Porter

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Sep 22, 2024 | theguardian.com | Dawn O'Porter

I wish someone had told me at the time that growing up in Guernsey was extraordinary. Not that I was receptive to that information – I was far too busy dreaming of what else the world could offer. The excitement and glamour of the mainland was too gripping to let me take stock of the privilege of plodding towards adulthood on a tiny island.

Jul 9, 2023 | listening-books.org.uk | Celeste Ng |Dawn O'Porter |Tsitsi Dangarembga |Curtis Sittenfield

Author Douglas Stuart Narrator Angus King Duration 17h 41m This is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie'...