Scotland is a main setting within The Flight of Gemma Hardy.

In Margot Livesey's novel, The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Claypoole, the boarding school that Gemma attends and works at, was originally the ancestral home of Lord and Lady Minto, where they lived until both of their sons died in the second world war (Livesely 50). The older son is said to have died in North Africa, while the younger son is said to have died in the Atlantic Convoy.