Sunset Song

30 years ago I pretended to read this for English at school but just hated it. We were so busy with the symbolism and the meaning behind the tale I couldn't get into it.

Reading it now, I was moved and engaged. Kinraddie was believable and the language painted pictures in my mind. Chris was a beautifully complex creature, as she grows up and the outside world starts to affect her little piece of Scottish soil and her life.

Thankfully I still have a Scots dictionary to help with some of the words I didn't know so that didn't get in the way of my enjoyment. I'll likely search out the others in the Scots Quair to continue reading Chris' story.