Young Mungo

Young Mungo is Douglas Stuart's second novel, following his Booker Prize-winning debut Shuggie Bain. Set in 1990s Glasgow, the novel traces the coming-of-age story of Mungo Hamilton, a working-class teenager navigating poverty, masculinity, and first love against the backdrop of a fractured family and a religiously divided city.

Stuart's prose captures the texture of Mungo's world with unflinching honesty - his difficult relationship with his mother, his friendships, and his relationship with a middle-class boy from the other side of the religious divide. The narrative moves between past and present, revealing how childhood experiences and social constraints shape identity and belonging. Stuart's characters are drawn with psychological depth rather than sentimentality, and the novel explores themes of class, sexuality, and the weight of family expectation.

The book has been shortlisted for major awards and praised for its lyrical yet accessible storytelling. Readers seeking literary fiction that grounds itself in specific social and geographical realities will find this a substantial work of contemporary Scottish fiction.

• Published 2022
• Author: Douglas Stuart
• Genre: Literary fiction
• Setting: 1990s Glasgow, Scotland
• Themes: Class, identity, family, first love

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