Cloud HoweII is the story of Chris Guthrie and her second husband Robert. They move to Segget, a mill town where a class struggle is taking shape and Robert is at the helm of political affairs "The borough of Segget stands under the Mounth, on the southern side, in the Mearns Howe, Fordoun lies near and Drumlithie nearer, you can see the Laurencekirk lights of a night glimmer and glow as the mists come down." (Excerpt) Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901 1935), a Scottish writer famous for his contribution to the Scottish Renaissance and portrayal of strong female characters.