Sunset Song eBook

Sunset Song is a 1932 novel by Scottish writerLewis Grassic Gibbon. It is considered one of the most important Scottish novels of the 20th century. It is the first part of the trilogyA Scots Quair. The central character is a young woman, Chris Guthrie, growing up in a farming family in the fictional parish of Kinraddie in the Mearns at the start of the 20th century. Life is hard, and her family is dysfunctional.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer. He was best known forA Scots Quair, a trilogy set in the north-east of Scotland in the early 20th century, of which all three parts have been serialised on BBC television.