A heartwarming and heart-wrenching portrayal of first love and loss, Young Mungo is Douglas Stuart's follow-up novel to his debut sensation, Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize. Shuggie Bain is only the second Scottish book to win the Booker Prize and the and the sixth debut to do so.Shuggie Bain has sold more than a million copies worldwide and Grove has sold 275, 000 copies of Shuggie Bain in all formats in North America. It has been published or is forthcoming in over forty territories. In the United States, it reached #3 on the New York Times bestseller list, was featured on NPR's ?Weekend Edition? with Scott Simon, and was named to an avalanche of ?best of? lists, including from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Time.In addition to the Booker Prize, Shuggie Bain was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, named the Best Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the NBCC John Leonard Prize, and the Kirkus Prize, among other honors. It is only the second book, alongside A Little Life, to be a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Booker.Douglas Stuart is rapidly becoming very well-known America. He was profiled by Alexandra Alter in the New York Times following his Booker Prize victory and also by Matthew Schneier in New York magazine. He has done countless events both virtual and in-person to promote the book over the course of 2020 and 2021, including a headline event at the Edinburgh Book Festival with Scottish Premier Nicola Sturgeon. We expect similarly major review attention and events interest for Young Mungo.Shuggie Bain was optioned for television by A24, and Stuart is adapting the novel himself. Production is expected to begin in 2022.Douglas finished an early draft of Young Mungo just before publishing Shuggie Bain and worked on the novel through 2020 and 2021. It has been five years in the writing and is the equal of Shuggie Bain in its scope and power.Young Mungo is an intersectional exploration of class and sexuality that has a very broad appeal and will win Douglas new readers. It is a queerer book than Shuggie Bain, exploring what it is like to fall in love with someone from the wrong side of the tracks, and the impossibility of even acknowledging a gay identity in the community Douglas is describing. Despite this, there are so many wonderful tender moments of love and joy.Young Mungo will be published by Picador in the UK and Knopf in Canada, where it launched a spirited auction.Stuart has published two stories in the New Yorker and is working on more stories for potential placement there or elsewhere.Young Mungo will appeal to fans of Garth Greenwell, Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright, and André Aciman.Editor: Peter Blackstock