Paperback edition of Welsh's latest novel, a prequel to his bestselling }Trainspotting{. Mark Renton is good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But in 1980s Britain there's no room for him, his family starts to fracture and his life swings out of control. Heroin is his way out, and it's no better for his friends, Spud Murphy, Tommy Lawrence, Matty Connell and Franco Begbie. }Trainspotting{ has sold more than a million copies and was adapted into an iconic film.