A novel set in Scotland during the Great War. On May 21st 1915, an Edinburgh schoolgirl whispered to her sweetheart: "I'm just born lucky." Then he left to join his Battalion, preparing to reach Liverpool by rail and embark for the Dardanelles. Around dawn next day, more than 200 Territorials lost their lives in a train crash near Quintinshill junction, the worst ever rail disaster on British soil. "Four Florins" starts from here and follows groups...