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Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the South Bank Sky Arts Awards, the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year and the Green Carnation Prize. When Janie Ryan is born, she's just the latest in a long line of Ryan women, Aberdeen fishwives to the marrow, always ready to fight. Her violet-eyed Grandma had predicted she'd be sly, while blowing Benson and Hedges smoke rings over her Ma's swollen belly. In the hospital, her family approached her suspiciously, so close she could smell whether they'd had booze or food for breakfast. It was mostly booze. Tony Hogan tells the story of a Scottish childhood of filthy council flats and B&Bs, screeching women, feckless men, fags and booze and drugs, the dole queue and bread and marge sandwiches. It is also the story of an irresistible, irrepressible heroine, a dysfunctional family you can't help but adore, the absurdities of the eighties and the fierce bonds that tie people together no matter what. Told in an arrestingly original -- and cry-out-loud funny -- voice, it launches itself headlong into the middle of one of life's great fights, between the pull of the past and the freedom of the future. And Janie Ryan, born and bred for combat, is ready to win.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma
• Author: Kerry Hudson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780701186395
• ISBN: 0701186399
• ID: 04478698
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 315 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 138 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. July 2012

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