A Song of Sixpence Author:A. J. Cronin A Song of Sixpence — 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, therigid class consciousness. Laurie is an outsider. The only child of a middleclass Catholic couple, he... more » suffers the pangs of isolation in a staunch Puritan town.