CharlesT wrote:Sgurr wrote:Sgurr wrote:SS is part of the SQ
SS is part of the trilogy
SQ...Hello....has everyone stopped reading this thread???
No, but utterly baffled and bereft of any inkling as to what might be the answer. The only JLM to come to mind was John Loudon Macadam and he WAS famous. So no joy there.
Still no idea about JLM or GG, but is it Sunset Song and Scots Quair? Both of which I have never previously heard of.
YES!! It is. For a long while every child that did Scottish Higher English, and every student that did a course in Scottish Literature had to read it. There was even a TV series of it at one point, and a 2015 Film. I suppose I should have said LGG
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, but he is largely referred to as Grassic Gibbon which was the pen name of James Leslie Mitchell. I can remember a friend who taught English despairing when her own son went stomping round the house saying "I DON'T SEE THE NEED for me to know about the stupid maunderings of some stupid girl when I'm going to be a mathematician," a subject in which he later became a Prof.