In his encyclopedic Scotland’s Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature, Robert Crawford declares J.M. Barrie’s Margaret Ogilvy “the only book-length account of a mother by a male Scottish writer.” But that was in 2007. Now, with Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart’s avowedly autobiographical first novel, Barrie has some competition at last.
Source : ‘A Good Year Once’
