From Scenes Like These by Gordon M. Williams (.ePUB)
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From Scenes Like These by Gordon M. Williams
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Overview: 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.
With an introduction by James Robertson
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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