{"product_id":"scenes-like-these-9781035073566-new","title":"From Scenes Like These","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A masterpiece' - Douglas Stuart, author of \u003ci\u003eShuggie Bain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eAn extraordinary novel' - Michael Magee, author of \u003ci\u003eClose to Home \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eIt deserves its modern classic status' -\u003ci\u003e The Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's the west of Scotland in the 1950s. New houses are going up. Factories are opening. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Dunky is swallowed up by a vicious cycle of violence, betrayal, and booze, Mary becomes entangled in a savage family feud. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow there's no going back, not for either of them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an introduction by James Robertson.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PICADOR UK","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67603395379490,"sku":"9781035073566-new","price":17.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9781035073566.jpg?v=1792989241","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/scenes-like-these-9781035073566-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}