![]() ![]() For a time, he tries to persuade her to commit incest with him but, as he is badly hurt, he is not able to force her. Soon after this, her father suffers a stroke, leaving him bedridden. Chris is left to do all the work around the house. Will and his father have a stormy relationship and Will emigrates to Argentina with his young bride, Mollie Douglas. Two younger children go to live with their aunt and uncle in Aberdeen, leaving Chris, her older brother Will, and her father to run the farm on their own. Life is hard, and her family is dysfunctional.Ĭhris Guthrie's mother, broken by repeated childbirths and learning she is again pregnant, kills her baby twins and herself. 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. ![]() There have been several adaptations, including a 1971 television series by BBC Scotland, a 2015 film version, and some stage versions. ![]() ![]() It is the first part of the trilogy A Scots Quair. It is considered one of the most important Scottish novels of the 20th century. Sunset Song is a 1932 novel by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon. ![]()
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