The Magpie Barks: A Wartime Thriller

One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold and then number seven. For a secret. A secret never to be told.As a young girl in Newcastle tragedy strikes for Margaret and life spirals until the family are forced to flee violent gangsters. They land in Top Yard, Packman Road, West Melton, a small Yorkshire mining village. Two rows of terraced houses forming a triangle around a patch of mud bordering a flooded brickyard quarry. Here Margaret finds love and security with Gilbert and their adopted daughter, Eva. But as World War 2 breaks out old ghosts resurface and when the blitz starts, they uncover a plot to assist the bombing of Sheffield.In a page turning thriller, they are forced to decide - are they seeking revenge or saving lives.A gritty thriller where old hostilities are stirred into action by the Third Reich.