From 1971, a BBC dramatisation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel. 'But for all my reading and schooling, two Chris Guthries there were that fought for my heart and tormented me.' Show more

'You knew you'd never be the same again, but the world went on, and you went with it. So you folded up your dreams and laid them away with the dark quiet corpse that was your childhood.'

'But a worse thing came as slow September dragged to its end. A thing I would never tell a soul. Festering away in the closet of my mind, the memory would lie until it died.'

'It wasn't like waking from a dream, marrying, but more like going into one. And I wasn't sure, not for days, what things we had dreamt and what we had actually done.'

'Our best friends were out of Kinraddie now. But we had ourselves. And seeing your Ewan grow straight and strong, it made a strange dizziness go singing in my heart.' Show more

'Everything I had ever loved and desired went out to the madness beyond the hills on that ill road that flung its evil white ribbon down into the dusk.'