21 February 2022
It’s not quite the proverbial waiting for a bus for ages and three come along at once, but we are getting a new Douglas Stuart novel a scant two years after his début. This is a sharpish turnaround, as Stuart famously worked for a decade on what would turn out to be his Booker-winning bow Shuggie Bain (Pan MacmillanOne of largest fiction and non-fiction book publishers in UK; includes imprints of Pan, Picador and Macmillan Children’s Books) —along the way enduring what could have been soul-destroying amounts of rejection, with his manuscript being knocked back by publishers 44 times (32 from the US and 12 from the UK, if you are keeping score).
