It won Sunday Times Memoir of the Year: "Full to the brim with poignancy, humour, brutality and energetic and sometimes shimmering prose, the book confounds one's assumptions about those years and drenches the whole era in an emotionally charged comic grandeur. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the Heartstopper series. STV Productions has a track record of producing quality drama, with four part thriller The Victim – starring Kelly Macdonald and John Hannah – transmitting later this year on BBC One. Full to the brim with poignancy, humour, brutality and energetic and sometimes shimmering prose, the book confounds one’s assumptions about those years and drenches the whole era in an emotionally charged comic grandeur. Although Margaret Thatchers accomplishments are mostly reflected in negative light, the end comparison which Barr makes is that ' "You also saved my life … You were different, like me, and you had to fight to be yourself.

Well, I can thank my mother, Mary Knight, massively for shaping our family view on sexuality and gender norms. The National Theatre of Scotland will be collaborating with film and video students from New College Lanarkshire to create a short documentary about the making of the production.Damian's childhood and teenage years are set against a Scotland having its industry decimated by Thatcher, and this, plus the depictions of conflict between Protestants and Catholics, provide an interesting and valuable piece of social history.

A poignant and painfully funny memoir about growing up gay in Thatcher’s Britain, it won Sunday Times Memoir of the Year, and was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. His shrewd observations of the people who inhabited his small world are offset by his young mind’s love of fantasy and far off worlds. Out of poverty, brutality and prejudice, Damian Barr builds something riveting, touching and painfully funny. The play is so much more than a memoir, it’s a vital check-in with the nation about what’s important to us, who we are and how we make sense of everything that’s thrown at us in life.

Still, I enjoyed this well enough as memoirs go, and I would certainly recommend it if you loved Nigel Slater’s memoir mentioned above and/or Boy Erased.

Barr's depiction is so pungent, so earth-shattering it's a universal story of alienation - one for anyone who's ever felt desperate to escape.It will recognisably be the book for people who have read it, but you won’t need to have read it to enjoy the play. I understand that, especially when the world feels more divided, fractured and dark than it has for a long time. Started the new year 2021 with Maggie and me ,a heartwarming memoir by Damian Barr which evokes emotion at every juncture.

Seeing the struggles through the eyes of this child really got me emotional and I’d read this again for sure. As she digs deeper into her sister’s secret life, she is drawn into the dark and complex world of Scotland’s sex industry. I’ll never forget the hard faced bouncers and the sticky carpets, the notoriously disgusting pints of Tennants and the voguing. Not til I turned the final page in this book with a smile of satisfaction I realize that I've seen this author in real life.As the title suggests it touches on the way Margaret Thatcher, and the life she imposed on Britain, touched a life. As a journalist I think Damian Barr might ask more probing questions about how he felt about or reacted to some v traumatising situations. Director Suba Das is one of the most exciting theatre makers in the UK so I am thrilled he’s lending us his unique and uniquely engaging vision. But for now, I want to thank National Theatre of Scotland for commissioning this adaptation - for having the vision to see the drama in my story and its relevance to the moment we're all living in and through.