Mollie Hunter

Just before World War 2 Bridie came to live with her grandparents in Edinburgh. Her days were to be quietly filled with her job at the florist and the occasional evening class. There was also her writing; nobody could stop that.

But Edinburgh was growing restless, dangerous and changing. And Bridie’s growing political awareness, her eager participation with life and with the many people she met meant that things never stood still around her. In those dragonfly years she began to struggle out of a straitjacket of domestic and social restraints – only to find that the friendship which was helping her soon imposed restraints of its own.

It seemed that in her fight for independence Bridie was losing almost everything she had been fighting for. And all the time, the possibility of another War was becoming a terrible reality.