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• A unique, tender and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small towScotland during the Thatcher years It's 12 October 1984. AIRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel iBrighton. Miraculously, M
• A unique, tender and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small towScotland during the Thatcher years It's 12 October 1984. AIRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel iBrighton. Miraculously, Maggie Thatcher survives. Ismall-towScotland, eight-year-old DamiaBarr watches ihorror as his mum rips her wedding ring off and packs their bags. He knows he, too, must survive. Damian, his sister and his Catholic mum move iwith her sinister new boyfriend while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the Canary. Divided by sectariasuspicion, the community is held together by the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks. But darkness threatens as Maggie takes hold: she snatches school milk, smashes the unions and makes greed good. Following Maggie's advice, Damiaworks hard and plans his escape. He discovers that stories casave your life and - ispite of violence, strikes, AIDS and Clause 28 - manages to fall ilove dancing to Madonna iGlasgow's only gay club. Maggie & Me is a touching and darkly witty memoir about surviving Thatcher's Britain; a story of growing up gay ia straight world and coming out the other side ispite of, and maybe because of, the irolady.