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Shortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize

'A masterpiece' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain

'An extraordinary novel' - Michael Magee, author of Close to Home

'
It deserves its modern classic status' - The Times

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.

Shortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize

'A masterpiece' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain

'An extraordinary novel' - Michael Magee, author of Close to Home

'
It deserves its modern classic status' - The Times

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.

Über den Autor
Gordon M. Williams
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781035073566
ISBN-10: 1035073560
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Williams, Gordon M
Hersteller: Pan MacMillan
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 194 x 127 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Gordon M Williams
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.02.2026
Gewicht: 0,244 kg
Artikel-ID: 133189629

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