Sunset Song
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Young Chris Guthrie comes of age in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, her duty to her family and her love of books, until the First World War begins and the landscape around her changes dramatically. The first novel in Gibbon’s classic trilogy A Scots Quair, Sunset Song marks the emotional and political changes that history an….Read More
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