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Sunset Song

By: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Narrated by: Eileen McCallum
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Summary
 Now a major motion picture directed by Terence Davies, starring Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie, Sunset Song is a powerful portrait of a land and people in turmoil, seen through the life and struggles of its heroine Chris Guthrie. In the years up to and beyond the First World War, Chris's resilience, like the land itself, endures despite everything, and is portrayed with a lyrical intensity that echoes through the years and still resonates today.©2015 Canongate Books Classics Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Small Town & Rural World Literature Heartfelt War Military
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"Sunset Song's great gripping hybrid of melodrama and realism . . . left me scorched" (ALI SMITH)
"Chris Guthrie is the most passionate and appealing heroine in Scottish literature; Grassic Gibbon's magnificent novel is fresh, powerful and timeless" (ANNE DONOVAN)
"This book may be read with delight the world over"
"Beautifully written . . . While describing a way of life in decline, it also presents a vision of hope for the future via its strong female lead character"
"It is gritty and passionate and one of Scotland's great 20th-century novels" (Jim Naughtie)
"Cries out for the widest international audience"
"His three great novels have the impetus and music of mountain burns in full spate"
"When I read Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song in my mid-teens I entered into it with such wholehearted love that I longed to live inside it . . . Chris is the centre of the novel and its genius, vivid on every page where she's present. You feel how she must have possessed the writer, as powerfully as if he knew her . . . . Reading her again now, she convinces me absolutely as a real female" (TESSA HADLEY)
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We chose to listen to this during our drive around Scotland.. having never heard of the book before!! We absolutely loved the book.. the story, writing and the reading.. thoroughly recommend it to anyone with an interest in Scotland

A real discovery... beautifully read..

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A favourite book, absolutely brought alive by the wonderful authentic narration of Eileen MacCallum. Highly recommended.

A classic

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Lyrical. Deeply affecting. Of its time yet timeless. Beautifully narrated with the lilting rythyms of an undiluted Scots dialect. I had forgotten just how good it was.

Unmatched

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Read this book for higher English in school 19 years ago! it went to my heart back then and more so now listening to the audible! there couldn't of been a better narrator for it!

Went straight to my heart! amazing book!

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Where does Sunset Song rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Great book made all the better by the masterly performance of Eileen McCallum. Please release her reading of the other two books in the trilogy - they aren't available in any format any more, even cassette, though I was prepared to resurrect my ancient Walkman if necessary!

What did you like best about this story?

The language is sublime and the characters are compelling - but perhaps not for you if you like a fast-moving plot.

What does Eileen McCallum bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

I read this book years ago and while I enjoyed it, I have to admit that I got a bit bogged down reading the dialect. This narration brought the whole setting completely to life.

Outstanding performance

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