Trainspotting

Leith, in the years when heroin came through the housing schemes like weather, and a novel written in the voices of the people it was killing. Irvine Welsh sets down the speech of Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and the terrifying Begbie exactly as it sounds, spelled the way an Edinburgh mouth makes it, and after a few pages of resistance the page starts talking in your head and will not stop.