The wild air /
Mascull, Rebecca,
The wild air / Rebecca Mascull. - 390 pages ; 24 cm
In Edwardian England, aeroplanes are a new, magical invention, while female pilots are rare indeed. When shy Della Dobbs meets her mother's aunt, her life changes forever. Great Auntie Betty has come home from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, across whose windswept dunes the Wright Brothers tested their historic flying machines. Della develops a burning ambition to fly and Betty is determined to help her. But the Great War is coming and it threatens to destroy everything - and everyone - Della loves. Uplifting and page-turning, THE WILD AIR is a story about love, loss and following your dreams against all odds.
1473604451 9781473604452 9781473604438 1473604435
GBB718133 bnb
018215063 Uk
Women air pilots--GreatBritain--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
The wild air / Rebecca Mascull. - 390 pages ; 24 cm
In Edwardian England, aeroplanes are a new, magical invention, while female pilots are rare indeed. When shy Della Dobbs meets her mother's aunt, her life changes forever. Great Auntie Betty has come home from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, across whose windswept dunes the Wright Brothers tested their historic flying machines. Della develops a burning ambition to fly and Betty is determined to help her. But the Great War is coming and it threatens to destroy everything - and everyone - Della loves. Uplifting and page-turning, THE WILD AIR is a story about love, loss and following your dreams against all odds.
1473604451 9781473604452 9781473604438 1473604435
GBB718133 bnb
018215063 Uk
Women air pilots--GreatBritain--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.