The Bird Flies High [Hardcover] Craig, Maggie

Glasgow, 1911. Kirsty Lennox dreams bigger than the tenement walls that box her in. She's sharp, ambitious, and determined to rise above the poverty that's swallowed so many around her. But in a city where your postcode is your destiny and a woman's place is firmly defined, dreaming costs more than she knows. As Kirsty navigates work, family loyalty, and the tangled politics of early 20th-century Scotland, she learns that flying high means leaving people behind—and that sometimes the hardest chains to break are the ones you can't see. Maggie Craig writes working-class Glasgow with authenticity and heart, never romanticizing the grind but never losing sight of the human spirit either. For fans of gritty Scottish historical fiction and anyone drawn to stories about women who refuse to stay small.