{"product_id":"9781035073566","title":"From Scenes Like These","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Williams, Gordon M. \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 29 May 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 130 x 23 | 242g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE FIRST EVER BOOKER PRIZE'A masterpiece . . . demands to be read' - Douglas Stuart, author of SHUGGIE BAIN'An extraordinary novel' - Michael Magee, author of CLOSE TO HOMEIt’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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Dunky is swallowed up by a vicious cycle of violence, betrayal, and booze, Mary becomes entangled in a savage family feud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow there’s no going back, not for either of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an introduction by James Robertson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46865257365763,"sku":"9781035073566","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781035073566.jpg?v=1748253723","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9781035073566","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}