The Glasgow Girl at War

Eileen Ramsay

EILEEN Ramsay, who grew up in Dumfriesshire and is the current Chair of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, sweeps us away to 1930s Scotland and into the life of an ambitious young woman who dreams of becoming a lawyer.

Previously published as The Quality of Mercy, this is a beautiful, heartwarming and inspirational tale set at a time when women’s career prospects were limited by marriage, motherhood, and age-old expectations and traditions. 

At the heart of the story is Ferelith Gallagher who grows up in a convent orphanage in Glasgow in the 1930s but never stops dreaming of bigger and better things.

Ferelith, who was born out of wedlock, has no money behind her and no family to speak of, so she leaves the orphanage and travels to Edinburgh determined to study to be a lawyer even though it is a brave choice for a woman in the Thirties.

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And when she falls in love with a young fellow student, she thinks she has finally found a home. 

But after a brief and disastrous marriage, Ferelith swears that she is through with love, and buries herself in her studies, striving to become the first female senior advocate in Scottish history.

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But love hasn't finished with Ferelith and when she finally meets a man she knows she could be happy with, she finds herself torn between love and her burgeoning career. 

And when war breaks out, she knows for certain that life will never be the same again…

Ramsay delivers an emotional rollercoaster story which explores the difficult choices facing women in the battle to move beyond domestic roles and pursue their dreams of forging a career, particularly in professions like the law.

Full of the author’s natural warmth, superbly drawn characters, and wonderful storytelling, The Glasgow Girl at War is the ideal curl-up-and-relax book for fireside reading.
(Zaffre, paperback, £7.99)