Cloud Howe

Cloud Howe' is Lewis Grassic Gibbon's second novel in the 'A Scots Quair' trilogy. Cloud Howe continues the story of Chris Guthrie who we found out in the first instalment 'Sunset Song' is a young woman growing up in a farming family on the Estate of Kinraddie in "The Mearns" in the north east of Scotland. Life is hard, and her family is dysfunctional. She marries a farmer, Ewan Tavendale, who dies in the First World War. This volume follows the story of Chris Guthrie as she marries for a second time to a church of Scotland minister.