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1920s: The story of a woman at the heart of a tight-knit Scottish farming community
Scots Quair
What you need to know before your trail
Three novels in which the central character, a young woman by the name of Chris Guthrie, grows up in a farming family in the fictional Estate of Kinraddie in The Mearns in north-east Scotland at the start of the 20th century. Life is hard, and her family is dysfunctional. She marries a farmer, Ewan Tavendale, who dies in World War I.
The novels are Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite
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Aberdeenshire
Sunset Song
Chris Guthrie grows up in a farming family in the fictional Estate of Kinraddie in The Mearns in north-east Scotland at the start of the 20th century. L
Grey Granite
Grey Granite is set in the fictional city of Duncairn (previously referred to in Cloud Howe as Dundon). In the Introduction, Gibbon points out that Dundon/Duncairn is not actually based on Aberdeen nor on Dundee but is “merely the city which the inhabitants of The Mearns (not foreseeing my requirements in completing my trilogy) have hitherto failed to build”.
The Grassic Gibbon Centre is located in Arbuthnott, Laurencekirk – the area in and around this town is known as the Howe of Mearns
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: A Scots Quair
Author/Guide: Lewis Grassic Gibbon Destination: Aberdeenshire Departure Time: 1920s
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