{"product_id":"from-scenes-like-these-gordon-m-williams-9781035073566","title":"From Scenes Like These","description":"SHORTLISTED FOR THE FIRST EVER BOOKER PRIZE\n'A MASTERPIECE. . . DEMANDS TO BE READ' - DOUGLAS STUART, AUTHOR OF SHUGGIE BAIN\n'AN EXTRAORDINARY NOVEL' - MICHAEL MAGEE, AUTHOR OF CLOSE TO HOME\nIt’s the west of Scotland in the 1950s. New houses are going up. Factories are opening. \nBut Dunky Logan, a 15-year-old brought up in a tenement flat in working-class Kilcaddie, is ditching school to be a labourer on a local farm. Dead set on becoming a hard case, he wants to work shoulder to shoulder with so-called real men.\nIrish Catholic Mary O’Donnell arrives at the farmhouse as the new maid. She is pregnant - no boyfriend in sight. But she’s smart, and she has a plan to get herself up in the world.\nAs Dunky is swallowed up by a vicious cycle of violence, betrayal, and booze, Mary becomes entangled in a savage family feud.\nNow there’s no going back, not for either of them.\n'One of the finest British novels of its era. A landmark in postwar fiction. A brave and brilliant book' - Liam McIlvanney, author of The Quaker\n'A devastating study of 1950s Scottish adolescence . . . a genuine lost classic just waiting to be rediscovered by a new generation of readers' - DJ Taylor, author of Orwell: The New Life\nWith an introduction by James Robertson","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50240201752864,"sku":"9781035073566","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781035073566.jpg?v=1780866862","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/from-scenes-like-these-gordon-m-williams-9781035073566","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}