num_pages: 224
description: Set in the 1880s, this portrait of life in the crofts and farmtowns of northeast Scotland relates the changes in rural life that slowly destroy a community. It tells of the bitter struggle that develops between a heartlessly self-centred laird and his poverty-stricken crofters.
language: English
title: A Kist of Sorrows
titlecomplete: A Kist of Sorrows
ratings_count: 2
places: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
publisher: Victor Gollancz