Sunset Song

Voted ‘The Best Scottish Book of All Time’ Chris Guthrie’s tumultuous feelings as she grows up in rural Scotland are the theme for Sunset Song, a national and international success which brought fame to James Leslie Mitchell, better known as ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’. He brings to life brilliantly the countryside of his youth, a Scotland of small farms, hard life, much affection yet much gossip and spite. In the first few decades of the 20th century, heroine Chris grows up, marries, is widowed, and watches her way of life altered beyond recognition by a distant war she barely understands. Yet her strength endures, like the land she loves so intensely.