A Song of Sixpence Hardcover By A.J. Cronin

A Song of Sixpence is set in the beautiful western highlands of Scotland. The story revolves around the innocent youth whose very naivete is a target for the complex currents of his social surroundings -- the bigotry of the Scottish Protestants, the rigid class consciousness. Laurie is an outsider. The only child of a middle-aged Catholic couple, he suffers the pangs of isolation in a staunchly Puritan town.