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From: The Independent - London | Date: November 3, 2006| Author: Arifa Akbar | Copyright information

It is more than a decade since Irvine Welsh's debut novel, about a gang of young men who take heroin to escape the banality of modern life, enthralled a generation of disaffected youth.

Now the Scottish writer, still best known for the seminal work Trainspotting, has turned his attention to the women involved in the drug and club scene of the 1990s, who hovered in the margins of his first novel.

Wedding Belles, Welsh's first script for Channel 4, is set on the same murky Edinbu...

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Welsh catches up with the women of 'Trainspotting'
Belfast Telegraph ; It is more than a decade since Irvine Welsh's debut novel, about a gang of young men who take heroin to ... the Scottish writer, still best known for the seminal work Trainspotting, has turned his attention to the women involved in the drug and club scene of the 1990s, who hovered in the margins of his first ...