The Bird Flies High: A heart-breaking and utterly compelling Glasgow saga (Glasgow and Clydebank Sagas)

The Bird Flies High: A heart-breaking and utterly compelling Glasgow saga (Glasgow and Clydebank Sagas)

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 friendless.<br /><br />Sheer guts and determination allow her to climb back from despair to success, and she becomes a reporter in the bustling and busy offices of the same newspaper. Life is good, even if her relationship with fellow journalist Roddy Cunningham has its complications - and on both sides. <br /><br />Can he find the courage to trust again and can Josie find the courage to tell him the dark secrets of her past?<br /><br />A page-turning story of love, family, friendship and forgiveness in the Glasgow of the General Strike, the Hungry 30s & the Second World War.