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Book SynopsisA classic of its kind.' William Boyd
Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant.' Scotsman
A work of dazzling craft.' Times Literary Supplement
A memoir in a million.' Sunday Times
** Chosen as a Time Book of the Year **
Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He spent his boyhood on a council housing estate.
When he wasn't busy dreading his birthdays, dodging kids who wanted to kill him in a game of toy fights,
working with his country-and-western singer dad, obsessing over God, origami, sex or Scottish football cards, he was developing a sugar addiction, playing guitar and descending into madness.
While he didn't manage to figure out who he was meant to be, the first twenty years of his life before he took a chance, packed his guitar and boarded a train to London did, for better or worse, shape who he would become
A book that swan-dives in
