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The Young Team
- Narrated by: Graeme Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
The Times top ten bestseller
Granta Best of Young British Novelists 2023
Scots Book o the Year 2021
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award & Betty Trask Award 2021
2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife culture. In the housing schemes of adjacent Lanarkshire, Scotland’s former industrial heartland, wee boys become postcode warriors.
2004. Azzy Williams joins the Young Team [YTP]. A brutal gang conflict with their deadly rivals, the Young Toi [YTB] begins.
2012. Azzy dreams of another life. He faces his toughest fight of all – the fight for a different future.
Expect Buckfast. Expect bravado. Expect street philosophy. Expect rave culture. Expect anxiety. Expect addiction. Expect a serious facial injury every six hours. Expect murder.
Hope for a way out
Inspired by the experiences of its author, Graeme Armstrong, The Young Team is an energetic novel, full of the loyalty, laughs, mischief, boredom, violence and threat of life on these streets. It looks beyond the tabloid stereotypes to tell a powerful story about the realities of life for young people in Britain today.
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- Lewis
- 11-08-21
First book/audiobook I’ve finished in about 20 years.
I absolutely loved this. Many parts of Azzy’s youth were very relatable and some of the descriptions of the “first times” were bang on and incredibly nostalgic to hear. My youth in the Scottish Borders was nowhere near as “rough” but elements were definitely familiar.
Graeme’s narration really brought The Young Team to life. I actually can’t imagine reading it as his expression and elation throughout was banging.
Loved it.
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- MR F BELL
- 02-06-21
insight to the West of Scotland
loved it. was a great story made even better by the narration from the Author.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-01-21
Blast from the past
Loved it.
A wee stote down memory lane, reminding me how many bad choices and decisions I've made. Cheers lol
You should take this into the schools if not already, the young team might learn something before it's to late.
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- Photo harky
- 28-11-21
excellent Scottish story
very intresting delve into the tough glasgow estates and the story of young scottish lads
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- Julia_M
- 14-07-21
Brilliant!
Absolutely loved it. Associated with a fair bit of it having grown up in the 90s, albeit on the east coast of Scotland. Enjoyed the narration which had me laughing often despite the story being a rollercoaster of emotions.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-02-22
Takes you back
Totally took me back to the 90s
No to far away from Airdrie, this story is uncannily like mine even the down to the YLP days in Falkirk haha
Great listen though totally recommended
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- Karen H
- 23-02-22
Must read for the 90s crew
Loved this book. If you grew up in the 90s and remember the dance scene and rivalry of street gangs then you’ll love this too.
Azzy is a great everyday hero struggling to do better while being pulled back by the everyday horrors of the scheme.
Graeme Armstrong puts in a stellar performance with his one man YTP show. A great story of how where you come from doesn’t always dictate where you’re going :)
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- Anonymous User
- 11-04-22
fucking young teammmmmm ya bam!
wow what a book could not stop listening related to it so much well done 👏 x
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- AARON Main
- 12-08-22
amazing listen
absolutely loved it, what a story. Definitely hooked from the start. Feel like buying a mera peak again lol
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- Kindle Customer
- 22-10-22
An authentic voice
Go for it! it’s a harsh, joyful, difficult, funny, touching and violent book, yet ultimately hopeful. It lays bear the joy and dark, deathly aspects of both drug taking and the need to belong, when you are already pretty much written off by society. It comments on the beauty and pain of growing up on an estate in North Lanarkshire, Scotland and on the need for family, either the one you’re born into or the one you make. I loved it. I found it heartbreaking, but I still loved it. Well done, Mr Armstrong, and thanks for the insight into your lives.
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