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*WINNER CARNEGIE MEDAL 2025*
*WINNER UKLA AWARD 2025*
*WINNER UKLA SHADOWER'S CHOICE AWARD 2025*
*WINNER BRANFORD BOASE AWARD 2025*
*SHORTLISTED YA Book Prize 2025*
*SHORTLISTED WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE 2025*
*A 2025 READ FOR EMPATHY BOOK*
'Tenderness itself, a song to love and friendship.' Andrew O'Hagan
'Desperately poignant.' The Guardian
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Why read it?
1 author picked Glasgow Boys as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Set against the grim background of Glasgow's working class, this book talked to my heart. Both Finlay and Banjo are the kind of beautiful, broken boy I love to read about and, indeed, to write. They have huge hearts, but have been so beaten up by life, it's hard for them to let them show. There are definitely some massive parallels between this book and many of my own. I understood these kids in a deep and powerful way.
It's a story about love and connection on so many levels. Not a romance (but there are elements of that…
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