From Scenes like These

Name: From Scenes like These
Author: Gordon Williams
ISBN: 9781035073566

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From Scenes like These was shortlisted for the first-ever Booker Prize. 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.

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