From Scenes Like These

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From Scenes Like These

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Author: Gordon M. Williams

Type: Paperback

ISBN: 9781035073566

Date: 29th May, 2025

Publisher: PICADOR

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  2. Social Issues
  3. Love And Relationships
  4. Family Life

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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 TIMES It'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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