description: This volume contains the complete Scots Quair trilogy, by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon. The trilogy consists of three novels: Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933), and Grey Granite (1934). The first is widely regarded as an important classic (voted Scotland's favourite book in 2005 ) .  It describes the life of Chris Guthrie, a woman from the north east of Scotland during the early 20th century.  In Sunset Song, Guthrie grows up in a farming family in the fictional Estate of Kinraddie in "The Mearns" (Kincardineshire) in the north east of Scotland at the start of the 20th century. Life is hard, and her family is dysfunctional. She marries a farmer, Ewan Tavendale... 
language: English
title: A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, and Grey Granite
titlecomplete: A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, and Grey Granite
characters: Chae Strachan, Rob Duncan, Robert Colquohoun, Chris Guthrie, Ewan Tavendale
genres: Literary Fiction, Unfinished, Fiction, 20th Century, Literature, Scotland, Historical Fiction, Classics, Novels, Historical
ratings_count: 902
places: North-East Scotland, Aberdeen, Scotland, Kincardineshire, Scotland, Scotland
series: A Scots Quair
publisher: Penguin Books