{"product_id":"9781035073566","title":"From Scenes Like These by Gordon M. Williams","description":"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\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296029094261,"sku":"9781035073566","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781035073566.jpg?v=1762769975","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781035073566","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}