Collins Girls' Annual 1941

When I was looking for an angle for the introduction to House of the Glimmering Light, I started by focusing on an earlier Jane Shaw story in a similar setting. Amanda’s Spies was her very first published short story and, like Glimmering Light, was set on a Scottish loch during the war and involved two girls investigating the possibility of Nazi spies in Scotland. However, Amanda’s Spies is far less serious in tone and the heroines are a bit younger than Angela and Noel from Glimmering Light. But it showed how Jane Shaw was approaching her writing at the time and served as a good basis for the introduction. The short story was published in the very first Collins Girls’ Annual in 1941 Here is a scan of the cover, which is very hard to find. Thanks to Clarissa from GGBP for sharing this with me.