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Twice Voted Scotland’s Favourite Book
'Left me scorched' Ali Smith
'Unforgettable' Guardian
Faced with a choice between a harsh farming life and the world of books and learning, Chris Guthrie chooses to remain in her rural community, bound by her intense love of the land. But everything changes with the arrival of the First World War and Chris finds her land altered beyond recognition.
One of the greatest and most heartbreaking love stories ever told,, Sunset Song offers a powerful portrait of a land and people in turmoil.
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3.5
Sophie
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Nicola Duncan
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“3* for the plot, bumped up to 4* because the Doric and descriptions of farming and Aberdeenshire made me think about relatives of previous generations and miss the ones at home”
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About Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901–35) is the pen-name of James Leslie Mitchell. Born and brought up in the rich farming land of North East Scotland, he was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and essays and had seventeen full-length books published before his untimely death at the age of thirty-three. He is today recognised as one of the outstanding figures in Scottish literature, most famous for A Scots Quair, the trilogy of novels which begins with Sunset Song.
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