The Bird Flies High

‘Maggie Craig knows her Glasgow and, more importantly, knows how to share that knowledge with readers.’ (Scots Magazine)

Glasgow, 1920s: Growing up in a poor but loving family in the packed tenements around Glasgow cathedral, Josephine Shaw dreams of a very different life for herself, her beloved mother, young sister and brother.

Taken on as a copygirl at one of Glasgow's newspapers in sophisticated Buchanan Street, she is overjoyed. Fate, however, intervenes, and Josie is left alone and frie...