The Good Son
by Paul McVeigh
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Winner of The Polari First Book Prize 2016Finalist for The People's Book Prize 2016Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2016Chosen for City Reads 2016Shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prizeELLE Best Books of 2015The Reading Agency: Books of 2015Mickey Donnelly is smart, which isn't a good thing in his part of town. Despite having a dog called Killer and being in love with the girl next door, everyone calls him 'gay'. It doesn't help that his best friend is his show more little sister, Wee Maggie, and that everyone knows he loves his Ma more than anything in the world. He doesn't think much of his older brother Paddy and really doesn't like his Da. He dreams of going to America, taking Wee Maggie and Ma with him, to get them away from Belfast and Da. Mickey realises it's all down to him. He has to protect Ma from herself. And sometimes, you have to be a bad boy to be a good son. show lessTags
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Love Mickey's voice, which is kept close to home to tell the larger story of N Ireland as well as the universal, smaller story of growing up gay.
Moving and at times funny but als sad story about a boy growing up in Belfast. All seen through the eyes of the boy himself which adds directness but at the cost of somewhat more background info.
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Paul McVeigh is the author of The Good Son which made the shortlist for Not the Booker Prize 2015, which is run by the Guardian in the UK and voted on by the public. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- The Troubles
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