6/27/2023 0 Comments Young mungo goodreads![]() ![]() His mother is waving good-bye from the window. When the book opens, Mungo is getting on a bus with two questionable-looking men, heading off on a fishing trip up north somewhere. Of course, that makes him a perfect target for Hamish and the other louts of Glasgow’s East End. “Where the freckles and the sallowness looked slightly grubby on her and Hamish, on Mungo it looked so creamy that you wanted to take a spoon to him.” He is also more appealingly attractive, the kind of lad that women want to mother. Mungo is the youngest of Maureen’s three kids, taller than both his violent older brother Hamish and his loving, caring sister, Jodie. Mungo is not Shuggie Bain, grown up, although Mungo’s mother is an alcoholic and they live in Glasgow. He had tried not to laugh when she had said it, but all he could picture was her heart walking around the living room in her chest and folding a white hanky in agitation.” He had been worrying her heart lately, which he knew because she had told him so. “Nothing he did seemed to make her happy. ![]()
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