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Shuggie Bain: Longlisted For The Booker Prize 2020
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IT IS 1981. GLASGOW IS DYING AND GOOD FAMILIES MUST GRIFT TO SURVIVE. AGNES BAIN HAS ALWAYS EXPECTED MORE FROM LIFE. SHE DREAMS OF GREATER THINGS: A HOUSE WITH ITS OWN FRONT DOOR AND A LIFE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR OUTRIGHT (LIKE HER PERFECT, BUT FALSE, TEETH). BUT AGNES IS ABANDONED BY HER PHILANDERING HUSBAND, AND SOON SHE AND HER THREE CHILDREN FIND THEMSELVES TRAPPED IN A DECIMATED MINING TOWN. AS SHE DESCENDS DEEPER INTO DRINK, THE CHILDREN TRY THEIR BEST TO SAVE HER, YET ONE BY ONE THEY MUST ABANDON HER TO SAVE THEMSELVES. IT IS HER SON SHUGGIE WHO HOLDS OUT HOPE THE LONGEST.
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Summer Term at St. Clare’s is the third novel in the St. Clare’s series of girls’ school stories by British author Enid Blyton. The series is about the boarding school adventures of twin girls Patricia and Isabel O’Sullivan
ප්රියදර ගඟබඩ හින්ද මං වැළපුනෙමි
පිලර් සතියක සංචාරයකදී ඇගේ අධ්යාත්මයේ වන වදුලු ගිරි දුර්ගග හා මංමාවත් පසු කරමින් සොදුරු මිටියවතකට පිවිසේන්නිය’ ළමා වියේ පටන් නොවෙනස් වූ අදාරයකද සමගින් ඇ හා සිටි සොරියාවේ තනබිමමීවලට එපිටින් විහිදී ගිය ලෝකයක් පිලිබද සිහින දුටු කිසි තැනක නම් සදහන් නොවූ ඇගේ මිතුරා ඇ කැටුව යයි’ විටෙක මග හැරි ගියද යලි යලින් ඔවුහු ඔවුනොවුන් සොයාගැනීමේ අසිරිය අත්විදිති ‘ කොයියෝගේ මේ කෘතිය පිලර්ගේ ඒ අසිරිමත් සංචාරය පිළිබද කතාන්දරයයි’එය තමන්ගේ සිහින බලාපොරොත්තු සහ ආදරය සොයා යන්නියකගේ කතාන්දරයයි’
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