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Introduced by Diarmid Gunn

About the Author

Neil Gunn (1891-1973) was recognized as one of the leaders of the Scottish Renaissance. His books with their timeless themes of alienation and conformity, of loss and acceptance, have found a new audience in the present generation.

Reviews

Looked at either as a sage of the spirit or as a story dressed in all the circumstances of Higland loveliness, Mr Gunn's book has a deep and moving appeal.
* * Evening Standard * *

Highland River is a novel of unusual distinction.
* * Irish Independent * *

This book must be read as one would listen to music ... scenes are projected with a crystal clarity, sharply defined, with an odd double quality of intense immediacy and a sort of enclosed detachment.
* * Times Literary Supplement * *