{"product_id":"from-scenes-like-these","title":"From Scenes Like These","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE FIRST EVER BOOKER PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A MASTERPIECE. . . DEMANDS TO BE READ'' - DOUGLAS STUART, AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eSHUGGIE BAIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003c\/i\u003eAN EXTRAORDINARY NOVEL'' - MICHAEL MAGEE, AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eCLOSE TO HOME\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\u003e''One of the finest British novels of its era. A landmark in postwar fiction. A brave and brilliant book''\u003c\/b\u003e - Liam McIlvanney, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Quaker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A devastating study of 1950s Scottish adolescence . . . a genuine lost classic just waiting to be rediscovered by a new generation of readers'' \u003c\/b\u003e- DJ Taylor, author of\u003ci\u003e Orwell: The New Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an introduction by James Robertson \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395712917886,"sku":"NW9781035073566","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781035073566.jpg?v=1778673485","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/from-scenes-like-these","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}