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| Author | Neil M. Gunn |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Canongate |
Publication date | 1934 |
| Publication place | Scotland |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 429 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781904598916 |
| Preceded by | Sun Circle |
| Followed by | Highland River |
Butcher's Broom is an epic, historical novel by Neil M. Gunn written and published in 1934, and re-titled Highland Night for its first American printing in 1935.[1] Based on a semi-fictionalised account of the Highland Clearances in Sutherland, the novel deals with the decline of Highland culture[2] in a wide scope of pre-Clearance and post-Clearance life, as well as the Clearances themselves.