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Mark Renton seems to have it all: he's the first in his family to go to university, he's young, has a pretty girlfriend and a great social life. But Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his badly handicapped younger brother dies the family bonds start to weaken, his life flips out of control, and he succumbs to the defeatism and the heroin which has taken hold in Edinburgh's grimmer areas
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This was such a fun read. It has a dark undercurrent of Thatcher's Britain in the 80s and heroin addiction, but the darkness makes the humour all the more stark. If you enjoyed Trainspotting, you'll like this too. In fact I think I'd go as far as to say that I liked this one more.
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5 primary booksMark Renton is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 1993 with contributions by Irvine Welsh.