<b>Cloud Howe </b>is a 1933 novel by Scottish writer <b>Lewis Grassic Gibbon</b>. It is the second part of the trilogy <b>A Scots Quair</b>. The central character is a young woman, Chris Guthrie, growing up in a farming family in the fictional parish of Kinraddie in the Mearns at the start of the 20th century.<br /><br /><b>Cloud Howe</b> continues the story of Chris Guthrie. She marries for a second time to Robert Colquhoun, a Church of Scotland minister. At the end of the novel, he dies in the pulpit while delivering a sermon.<br /><br /><b>Lewis Grassic Gibbon</b> was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 &ndash; 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer. He was best known for <b>A Scots Quair</b>, a trilogy set in the north-east of Scotland in the early 20th century, of which all three parts have been serialised on BBC television.