Sunset Song is the first book in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s trilogy, A Scots Quair. The novel follows the fortunes of Chris Guthrie, a young girl growing up amid the harsh rural life in the north east of Scotland in the early part of the 20th century. As she matures she finds that there are “two Chrises” “within her – the one who loves the country life in spite of its constant back breaking toil, and the other Chris who excels at school, loves learning and dreams of moving away to fulfil her intellectual aspirations.
With the onset of WW1 and the social and economic upheaval it inflicts, Chris makes the decision to stay farming on the land that she loves with her new husband Ewan. To Chris the war seems like a distant happening, unlikely to impact on their little community, but ultimately nothing could be further from the truth……
Individually or collectively the books which make up the trilogy The Scots Quair provide plenty of scope for Higher or Advanced Higher Specialist Study.
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