BEFORE TRAINSPOTTING CAME SKAGBOYSThe Number One Bestseller Mark Renton has it all he's good-looking young with a pretty girlfriend & a bright future But there's no room for him in the 1980s & when his family starts to fracture Mark's life swings out of control The way out is heroin It's no better for his friends
- Spud Murphy is laid off from his job Tommy Lawrence finds himself sucked into a life of petty crime violence & the world of the psychotic Franco Begbie Only Sick Boy seems to ride the current scamming & hustling his way through it all Exhilarating & moving Skagboys charts their journey from likely lads to young addicts in a decade which changed Britain forever