Gordon M. Williams From Scenes Like These Paperback Book

Shortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize&#39A masterpiece&#39 Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain&#39An extraordinary novel&#39 Michael Magee, author of Close to Home&#39It deserves its modern classic status&#39 The TimesIt&rsquos the west of Scotland in the 1950s. New houses are going up. Factories are opening. But Dunky Logan, a 15yearold brought up in a tenement flat in workingclass 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 socalled real men. Irish Catholic Mary O&rsquoDonnell arrives at the farmhouse as the new maid. She is pregnant no boyfriend in sight. But she&rsquos 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&rsquos no going back, not for either of them. With an introduction by James Robertson | Gordon M. Williams From Scenes Like These Paperback Book