Mo-Maw infrequents Alcoholics Anonymous meetings with the likes of Every-Other-Wednesday Nora, Mount Ellen-Ellen and Cranhill-Cathy. Their mammy Maureen is Mo-Maw, a distinctly unmotherish moniker for a parent who sloshes down lagers and undoes her top two buttons before her shift as a late-night snack cart attendant. Fifteen-year-old Mungo’s older brother Hamish, a teenage Proddy Bill the Butcher, demands to be called Ha-Ha, though he evokes dread rather than laughs. Like Kentigern, people in the follow-up to Stuart’s Booker Prize-winning debut, “ Shuggie Bain,” are rarely known by their given names. Mungo, the patron saint of Glasgow and namesake of Douglas Stuart’s bear hug of a new novel, “ Young Mungo,” which follows great cruelty with great tenderness. This maybe-miracle is one of four that hagiographers attribute to Kentigern, who became known as St. Moments later, the robin flew off, revived. One bird fell to the ground, and after the scamps scattered, Kentigern stroked its feathers and prayed. The story goes that in the sixth century a young boy called Kentigern saw some other little rascals pelting robins with stones. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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