“To its original readers in 1932 Sunset Song was a book in itself; they could not know it was the first part of a trilogy. Many reacted with disgust to its frank treatment of sex and childbearing, its scorn for the rich and powerful, its sometimes strident anti-clericalism.” Sunset Song Author:Lewis Grassic Gibbon
“So that was Kinraddie... the Scots countryside itself, fathered between a kailyard and a bonny briar bush in the lee of a house with green shutters.” KailyardScottish LiteratureSunset SongKinraddieScottish Countryside Author:Lewis Grassic Gibbon