{"product_id":"9781035073566","title":"From Scenes Like These by Gordon M. Williams","description":"SHORTLISTED FOR THE FIRST EVER BOOKER PRIZE'A masterpiece . . . demands to be read' - Douglas Stuart, author of SHUGGIE BAIN'An extraordinary novel' - Michael Magee, author of CLOSE TO HOMEIt’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.\u003cp\u003eIrish 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Dunky is swallowed up by a vicious cycle of violence, betrayal, and booze, Mary becomes entangled in a savage family feud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow there’s no going back, not for either of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an introduction by James Robertson\u003c\/p\u003e,\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback,\u003cbr\u003ePagination: 352 pages","brand":"PAN MACMILLAN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46388967080163,"sku":"9781035073566","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9781035073566.jpg?v=1747915873","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781035073566","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}