Preview of The Seven Magpies Summary:

"It's an excellent school and you'll soon make lots of friends." With those words, Maureen Frazer's mother puts the fourteen-year-old on a train from Saint Andrews to a small town near the Highlands. It is September 14, 1939, and Maureen is off to Logan Academy for Young Ladies, relocated in an isolated hunting lodge because of the war which is just beginning. Her father has already been called up from the reserves into active service...