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A Scottish Revelation B. Scott This is one of my favorite books. Though written by a man, it presents a woman's point of view in a harsh rural setting in Scotland at the turn of the century. Some people might find it tedious to wade through the first chapter because it presents the history of a town since the dawn of civilization: it setting, legends, and characters. I found it fascinating because it gave me the feeling, when the contemporary story began, that I had grown up in the area and knew the background on all of the characters that cross the main character's path. The main character is Chris, a young teenage woman wh. Well worth the read Amazon Customer This is a classic of Scottish literature. The first novel is likely the most read, but the other two follow main characters through several decades of their lives. It is definitely a good read for anyone interested in the social history of Scotland's rural population in the early 20th century. The trilogy shows how all the social, political and economic factors of the times affected the poor. Too often, we only read/see how such factors affected the wealthy, e.g. the characters in Downton Abbey. So, the trilogy gives the reader a more rounded sense of what it was like to live through these time. The author uses many Scottish words and phrases so I would recommend that you Google "Sunset Song glossary" before you start David Freeman The beginning of this book moves very slowly through the history of a small Scottish village. One you get through that, the story gets more and more intriguing. The characters are very well developed and the story draws you in as if you were living it. The author uses many Scottish words and phrases so I would recommend that you Google "Sunset Song glossary" before you start so that you can understand the meaning of them.

Chris adapts to her new world, displaying an intuitive strength which, like the land which she loves, endures despite everything. It is a powerful description of life in the first few decades of the century through the evocation of change and the lyrical intensity of its prose.. Faced with a choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive but distant world of books and learning, Chris Guthrie eventually decides to remain in her rural community, bound by her intense love of the land. Sunset Song is a testament to Scotland's agricultural past, to the world of crofters and tradition which was destroyed in the First World War. However, the intervention of the First World War leaves her choice in tatters. But although the novel describes a way of life which is in decline, it also presents a strong image of hope. Chris is now a widowed single mother: her farm, and the land it occupies, is altered

. Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1901, he died at the age of thirty-four. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays and science fiction, and his writing reflected his wide interest in religion, archaeology, history, politics and science. The Mearns trilogy, A Scots Quair, is his most renowned work, and has become

'Chris Guthrie is the most passionate and appealing heroine in Scottish literature; Grassic Gibbon's magnificent novel is fresh, powerful and timeless.' - Anne Donovan 'Its great gripping hybrid of melodrama and realism has left me scorched' - Ali Smith

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