Voted ‘The Best Scottish Book of All Time’
‘Chris Guthrie is the most passionate and appealing heroine in Scottish literature; Grassic Gibbon’s magnificent novel is fresh, powerful and timeless.’ – Anne Donovan
‘This book may be read with delight the world over.’ – The New York Times
‘Its great gripping hybrid of melodrama and realism has left me scorched’ – Ali Smith
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.
Born in Aberdeenshire as James Leslie Mitchell, the author of Sunset Song, one of Scotland’s best-loved novels, Lewis Grassic Gibbon is among the 20th century’s finest Scottish writers. His writing career was tragically cut short by his early death at thirty-four, but he left behind some of the most powerful and noteworthy writing in Scotland’s literary history.
Among his finest achievements is his trilogy A Scot’s Quair, which is considered to be one of the most significant literary works to come out of Scotland in the 20th century. His novel Sunset Song, one of the Scot’s Quair trilogy, was voted number one in the List/Orange Best Scottish Books of All Time.
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