From Scenes Like These

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FIRST EVER BOOKER PRIZE ''A MASTERPIECE. . . DEMANDS TO BE READ'' - DOUGLAS STUART, AUTHOR OF SHUGGIE BAIN 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. ''A devastating study of 1950s Scottish adolescence . . . a genuine lost classic just waiting to be rediscovered by a new generation of readers'' - DJ Taylor, author of Orwell: The New Life With an introduction by James Robertson

Product details

• Authors: Gordon Williams, Gordon M Williams, Williams Gordon M.
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.05.2025
• EAN: 9781035073566
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3507356-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Glasgow, FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Coming of age, c 1950 to c 1959, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Central Scotland, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, FICTION / World Literature / Scotland / 20th Century