By Irvine Welsh
Glue is the tale of 4 boys turning out to be up within the Edinburgh schemes, and in regards to the loyalties, the stories and the secrets and techniques that carry them jointly into their thirties.
As we persist with their lives from the 70's into the hot century - from punk to techno, from pace to Es - we will see each one of them attempting to fight out from less than the load of the conditioning of sophistication and tradition, peer strain and their parents' hopes that perhaps their sons will do larger than they did. What binds the 4 of them is the friendship shaped through the scheme, their tuition, and their ambition to flee from either; their loyalty fused in road morality: again up your friends, don't hit ladies and, most significantly, by no means grass - on anyone.
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