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A review by bluestarfish
Maggie & Me by Damian Barr
4.0
This book has a brilliant cover! Damian Barr recounts his rather chaotic childhood in this memoir which resists becoming a misery-memoir despite some truly horrible things happening. Growing up gay in a village where your Gran gets to hear everything wasn't going to be very easy... And that's not the worst of it. But the humour and peaking lyrical sentances were fun to come across. And I liked Heather. I'm glad she got to go to the club in Glasgow too.
Maggie walks out of the IRA-bombed hotel unharmed on the same night that Damian, his sister and his mother spend their first night away from home after his parents split up, and so becomes linked with his drive to get away. She seemed a little incidental to the story at times, easily forgotten with all else that was going on.
Maggie walks out of the IRA-bombed hotel unharmed on the same night that Damian, his sister and his mother spend their first night away from home after his parents split up, and so becomes linked with his drive to get away. She seemed a little incidental to the story at times, easily forgotten with all else that was going on.