From Scenes Like These

Author(s): Williams, Gordon M.,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 29/05/2025,
Pagination: 352 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Picador,
Published By: PAN MACMILLAN ,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 23
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781035073566

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE FIRST EVER BOOKER PRIZE'A masterpiece' - Douglas Stuart, author of SHUGGIE BAIN'An extraordinary novel' - Michael Magee, author of CLOSE TO HOME'It deserves its modern classic status' - THE TIMESIt’s the west of Scotland in the 1950s. New houses are going up. Factories are opening. But 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.

Irish 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.

As Dunky is swallowed up by a vicious cycle of violence, betrayal, and booze, Mary becomes entangled in a savage family feud.

Now there’s no going back, not for either of them.

With an introduction by James Robertson

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