Prequel to Trainspotting

With his new novel, Skagboys, Irvine Welsh returns to the darkly funny world he created in his 1993 novel, Trainspotting.  Welsh takes us back to the beginning (in this case the beginning being the early 1980s)  and charts the lives of Mark Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, Begbie, and other memorable characters as they transform from upstanding citizens to addicts as heroin floods the community where they live. Filled with twists, turns, and heroin highs and lows, Scottish vernacular, and lots of laughs, this prequel is just as gritty as Trainspotting, the novel which made Irvine Welsh a household name.