Synopsis
THE FORGOTTEN 20TH CENTURY SCOTTISH CULT CLASSIC
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FIRST EVER BOOKER PRIZE
INTRODUCED BY JAMES ROBERTSON
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...
Details
29 May 2025352 pages
9781035073573Imprint: Picador
Reviews
'What impresses most is its harsh authenticity . . . Williams gets across the pains and perplexities of adolescent desire, guilt and aspiration convincingly and without literary frills'New Statesman
'Raw and vigorous, harsh and authentic'Sunday Times
'A remarkable talent'Times Literary Supplement
'A rare, raw, meaty novel'Sunday Telegraph