{"product_id":"from-scenes-like-these-9781035073566b","title":"From Scenes Like These","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eShortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s the west of Scotland in the 1950s. New houses are going up. Factories are opening.\u003c\/span\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\u003eNow there’s no going back, not for either of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an introduction by James Robertson.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e'A masterpiece' – Douglas Stuart, author of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eShuggie Bain\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An extraordinary novel' – Michael Magee, author of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eClose to Home\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It deserves its modern classic status' – \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42818257092688,"sku":"9781035073566B","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781035073566-l.jpg?v=1785870907","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/from-scenes-like-these-9781035073566b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}