And growing up in Glasgow as a young Catholic, you could have this experience of holy communion and confirmation and being an altar boy, the sacraments and the duties of Catholicism, but yet there wasn't a novel in which that world was reflected.

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It said if Denum took his first Holy Communion when he was "better placed to understand" it would "enrich his whole experience".

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