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<p>‘Shuggie Bain’ has sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide since 2020  </p>

We’ve never needed working-class stories like Shuggie Bain more

Douglas Stuart is adapting his Booker Prize-winning novel, set in a Glasgow scarred by Thatcherism, for the BBC. Thank heavens for that – the diet of wealth-obssessed TV like ‘The White Lotus’ and ‘The Crown’ is out of step with life in our cash-squeezed age, writes Jessie Thompson

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