From Scenes Like These

An elegy to ordinary lives. A forgotten classic entirely deserving of a place in the canon of great social realism novels of the twentieth century. A raw, unsparing tale of coming of age, of masculinity in crisis, of farm workers holding on as post-war Britain encroaches upon them . . . A masterpiece of time and place that looks you square in the eye and demands to be readDouglas Stuart, Booker Prize winning author of Shuggie Bain

From Scenes Like These is an extraordinary novel, full of rage and despair, but joy too, and moments of profound beautyMichael Magee, author of Close to Home

A devastating study of 1950s Scottish adolescence by one of the most consummate stylists of the whole post-war era. From Scenes Like These is a genuine lost classic just waiting to be rediscovered by a new generation of readersDJ Taylor, author of Orwell: The New Life

'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