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A review by redheadreading
Maggie and Me by Damian Barr
3.0
As a memoir, this is very frank and really captures the way we perceive events as a child very well. I would give a warning for very heavy subject matter, especially child abuse.
I don't feel like the framing around Margaret Thatcher was done overly effectively. Each chapter opens with a quotation from her and she is mentioned from time to time, but the closing rally of how she inspired the author to keep pushing through tough times and the way he refers to her as his second mum felt very odd to me. I'm not denying that experience to be true, it just didn't seem to br weaved through the rest of the narrative in a way that made me see her influence on his life! That said, you do get to see the way her government policies directly impacted the lives in and community of this Scottish town, and really the country as a whole, which was very effective.
I don't feel like the framing around Margaret Thatcher was done overly effectively. Each chapter opens with a quotation from her and she is mentioned from time to time, but the closing rally of how she inspired the author to keep pushing through tough times and the way he refers to her as his second mum felt very odd to me. I'm not denying that experience to be true, it just didn't seem to br weaved through the rest of the narrative in a way that made me see her influence on his life! That said, you do get to see the way her government policies directly impacted the lives in and community of this Scottish town, and really the country as a whole, which was very effective.