{"product_id":"9781035073566","title":"From Scenes Like These","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Williams, Gordon M. \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 29\/05\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 352 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781035073566,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize 'A masterpiece . . . demands to be read' - Douglas Stuart, author of Young Mungo'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55287576559989,"sku":"9781035073566","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781035073566.jpg?v=1745050517","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781035073566","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}