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Sunset Song

By: Lewis Gibbon
Narrated by: Eileen McCallum
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Summary

The most acclaimed Scottish novel of all time, 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' 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 (P)2015 Canongate Books Ltd

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Wonderful

Fantastic narration. I've read Sunset Song many times and will never tire of it. Eileen McCallum's voice is perfect and added so much to an already firm favourite of mine. I'm looking forward to listening again.

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beautifully read by Eileen McCallum

It was narrated with a soft Doric accent which brought the novel to life for me.

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A wonderful read of a wonderful novel.

Shame that we don't have readings by the same narrator of the two other books

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A beautiful story beautifully narrated

the narrator's authentic Scottish accent leads you into the Scottish Highlands in a beautiful rendition of a truly emotional atmospheric story.

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Unmatched

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.

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grand story

this was one of my Di's favourite books and I was so happy to find it on here. it's a great story wish the other 2 were on here!

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One of the best Scottish novels, read exquisitely

I've read the book several times. I love it. I bought the audible version on a whim, but didn't know what to expect. Eileen McCallum is so good at reading this. She brings it to life in a way I could never do in my own reading of it. It's told in a manner of someone who lives in Kinraddie, and enjoys the telling of tales of other folk's business. I'm so glad I bought it.

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Brilliantly read

Listening to this was lovely, comforting even (despite the nature of it), having gone over the text in detail back in Higher English. The narrator choice felt just right and brought the characters back to life for me. I highly recommend this audiobook.

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Perfect Narration of the Perfect Book

Forget the recent disappointing film version, this reading by Eileen MacCallum is definitive. She captures the accent, the humour and the profound humanity of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s masterpiece.
I know that she also recorded the other two books in the trilogy, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite, at the same time as this version was made for Canongate back in the days of cassette tapes. Please release them as well. The digital works deserve to share the complete delights of A Scots Quair Trilogy - probably the best Scottish fiction ever written.

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Astoundingly good

I have be browsing on here in and off since joining to see if there ever would be an audio book of Sunset Song and here at last it is. This is my favourite book so it was more than a wee bit trepidation I had wondering if it would be read well. I needn’t have worried. The narration is perfect, authentic Scots doric- only off a bit on the highland voice which to my ear was more Irish than island but as this was a tiny bit of the book it didn’t matter. The narrator rendered the gossipy, noisey, opinionated, folk of Kinraddie brilliantly and although set a 100 years ago I recognise so much of my ain folk in the characters that the book has a timelessness to it.

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