Manchester Literature Festival presents Douglas Stuart
Manchester Literature Festival presents Douglas Stuart at Contact Theatre, Manchester
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About the show
We’re delighted to welcome back to Manchester Literature Festival Booker Prize-winning novelist Douglas Stuart, to discuss his profoundly moving new novel John of John, set on the Isle of Harris.
Returning home after his art school years on the mainland, John-Calum Macleod is drawn back into a tightly bound Hebridean community shaped by faith, silence and watchful scrutiny. Caught between his devout father John, sheep farmer and weaver, and his Glaswegian grandmother, Cal navigates desire and masculinity. As the seasons change, the fragile balance holding family and community together is threatened.
Tender, immersive and unflinching, John of John explores the weight of family expectation, the compromises demanded by love and the devastating cost of lives constrained by silence.
This is a unique opportunity to hear from one of the most vital voices in contemporary fiction.
Featuring - Douglas Stuart
Douglas Stuart is one of the most successful writers in Britain today. He is celebrated globally for his honest portrayals of human relationships and working-class life. In 2020 he won the Booker Prize for his debut novel Shuggie Bain, a searingly honest novel set in 1980s Glasgow about a boy named Shuggie trying to save his mother, Agnes, from alcoholism and poverty.