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Sunset Song, the first novel in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s trilogy A Scots Quair, follows young Chris Guthrie in Kinraddie, a fictional estate in northeast Scotland, as she navigates life within a strained farming family before and during World War I. Guthrie faces numerous personal challenges while the estate's rich history and the larger geopolitical upheavals reflect Scotland's own crisis of identity. Traumatic events including domestic violence and tragic loss are depicted.