Sunset Song – A testament to Scotland’s agricultural past (Paperback)

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Chris Guthrie grows up between two futures. One is rooted in the hard soil of the Mearns, shaped by labour, silence, and an unyielding attachment to the land. The other lies in books and learning, offering the possibility of escape. Her choice to stay is not simple loyalty but a fierce, complicated love, tested by family tensions and the narrowing expectations placed upon her.

As the First World War arrives, the rhythms of rural life fracture. The land Chris knows is altered by loss, by absence, and by the slow erosion of certainties she once relied on. What follows is not only a story of personal endurance, but of a community and a way of life under pressure.

Sunset Song is a quiet, devastating novel about belonging and change, and about what it means to love a place that cannot love you back in the same way forever.