Cloud Howe is a 1933 novel by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon . It is the second part of the trilogy A Scots Quair . 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. Cloud Howe 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. Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer. He was best known for A Scots Quair , 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.