Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, plays a background, stationary role in Margot Livesey's The Flight of Gemma Hardy. This is the second location Gemma Hardy makes note of (Livesey 148) on her train ride to Blackbird Hall. In the same passage, Gemma acknowledges her return to the same train platform she stood upon as a child when travelling to the Claypoole School (148). Further into the story, Hugh Sinclair and Gemma are supposed to stop in Edinburgh (before permanently moving to London) to visit one of Sinclair's business clients (260), but this never happens when Gemma learns the truth about Sinclair's past.

Livesey, Margot. The Flight of Gemma Hardy. HarperCollins, 2012.