Cloud Howe

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Just 9 miles away is the bustling market town of Stonehaven with an outdoor heated pool – brilliant in summer.

Living in the wake of the Great War and during the build up to the General Strike, they find themselves instrumental in the small town's epic class struggle. With a domineering father and a mother worn out by childbirth, Chris's upbringing is painful, and she is torn between her love of the land and her dream of becoming a teacher. We see children who hate and abuse their parents and vice-versa, men who abuse and sometimes rape women, women who are spiteful and vindictive. Yes--Mem, I’m sorry, and Chris felt a fool, but she didn’t show it, and this kind of thing had just to be settled one way or the other.The religious aspect fascinates me – I’m always interested to read books that portray how people deal with things like war and tragedy but I agree that it makes no sense for someone as committed to religion as a minister to marry someone who could take it or leave it. The passages where her maternal love is described were movingly written and uncannily described with great tenderness and feeling. His descriptions of the natural backdrop to this story were incredibly strong, vivid and very beautifully written. I have a theory that it shares some Eastern Canadian terms, of which I’ve been reading quite a bit of late. There is the other bridge between them, of course, which is Chris's personal tragedy--not personal at all, because it's the tragedy of Scotland, and not tragic at all, because both Chris and Scotland continue on, having changed irrevocably and not at all.

When she and her family move to the mill town of Segget in Aberdeenshire, they find themselves embroiled in the small town's epic class struggle during the run-up to the General Strike. Around them, dry, the whistle of the whins, strange shapes that rose and were lost in the dark, Robert would stop and would fuss at her collar, pretending he did it to keep out the cold. So, while Sunset Song was set in the small farming community of Kinraddie and focuses on rural life, Cloud Howe is set in the larger burg of Segget, just down the road from Kinraddie, and focuses on small town life.But sadly, this book is less a continuation of Chris's story in the next phase of her life as it is ho-hum crappy politics and propaganda.

Chris Guthrie, the female protagonist, is a strong character who grows up in a dysfunctional farming family. Chris is a memorable heroine and the political events of the time (the growth of Labour politics, the General Strike) are depicted vividly. Lewis Grassic Gibbon sigue con esa escritura tan maravillosa que me cautivó en Canción del Ocaso, volviendo a forjar una novela inolvidable y entrañable a la que volveré siempre que quiera sentirme en Escocia. And now, as she climbed swift up the slope, queer and sudden a memory took her--of the hills above the farm in Kinraddie, how sometimes she’d climb to the old Druid stones and stand and remember the world below, and the things that were done and the days put by, the fun and fear of the days put by.A Scots Quair is revolutionary—innovative in its form, deft and humorous in its use of the Scots language, courageous in its characterization and politics.