Saturday City — Jan Webster

“Saturday City” is Glasgow in Scotland. In the tumultuous period from 1880 till 1918, Glasgow was second only to London among the cities of the Empire. This is the story of that city, a city whose confident, bustling surface does not hide the poverty beneath it.

We watch the Kilgours, the Balfours, and the Flemings as their lives intertwine in love and bitterness, success and failure, survival and death. Duncan Fleming, dedicated to improving life in the coal pits, is forced to choose between the woman he loves and the cause he serves. Sandia Kilgour discovers a hidden strength and opens a tea room. And Paterson Fleming's American son returns to pioneer the development of the automobile and find personal happiness.