A Scots Quair

A Scots Quair is a trilogy by the Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, describing the life of Chris Guthrie, a woman from the north-east of Scotland during the early 20th century.

[1][2] The central character is a young woman, Chris Guthrie, growing up in a farming family in the fictional Estate of Kinraddie in The Mearns (Kincardineshire) in north-east Scotland at the start of the 20th century.

She moves to the fictional city of Duncairn, which was earlier called "Dundon" in Cloud Howe; Gibbon points out in the introduction that Dundon/Duncairn is based neither on Aberdeen nor on Dundee (as some reviewers had surmised) but is "merely the city which the inhabitants of The Mearns (not foreseeing my requirements in completing my trilogy) have hitherto failed to build".

[citation needed] An important character is her son by her first marriage, Ewan Tavendale, Jr., who becomes a left-wing political activist.

[3] An adaptation of the trilogy by Alastair Cording was produced by TAG Theatre Company in 1991 and staged again at the Assembly Hall during the 1993 Edinburgh International Festival, with Pauline Knowles in the role of Chris Guthrie.