January 2017 Fiction & Entertainment Birlinn

A Scots Quair: The Mearns Trilogy Lewis Grassic Gibbon

A Scots Quair: The Mearns Trilogy
Lewis Grassic Gibbon


Hardback | Gift Ed. | Jan 2017 | Polygon | 9781846973673 | 736pp | 205x140mm | GEN

One of the all-time greats of Scottish literature, truly revolutionary, A Scots Quair is a trilogy of novels: Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933) and Grey Granite (1934). At each book's core is the heroine Chris Guthrie, as she grows from a child into adulthood through the Great War to the development of communism in the 1920s. Grassic Gibbon's writing is unique and riveting, blending Scots and English in an accessible style, and eloquent in its humanity and celebration of nature.