Sunset Song
By Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Why this book?
Written in 1932, but set at the turn of the twentieth century, this beautifully written and evocative novel has been adapted to both stage and film. I love this book with a passion, because of the beautiful prose and because in a way it taught me how the ordinary lives of my people are inextricably intertwined with the land. Sunset Song follows the life of Chris Guthrie a young woman on the east coast of Scotland, her relationship to the land and to the poor farming community she has grown up in. Like my novel, it is the first installment of a trilogy. The novel is wildly popular in Scotland but under-celebrated globally. It is the favorite novel of Scotland’s prime minister, Nicola Sturgeon.
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