Paper Cup by Karen Campbell (Canongate, 2023)
Fiction
The BOOKMARK, Book of the Year 2023 winner: Paper Cup by Karen Campbell (ISBN: 9781838855109, paperback). Kelly is living a precarious, desperately raw life on the streets of Glasgow, when a chance encounter sets her on a path of physical and redemptive pilgrimage towards her home town in Dumfriesshire. There’s guilt, loathing, kindness and love; there are baddies, brilliant pals and a dog called Collieflower. It’s a book that gets under your skin.