![]() Her competitiveness was also an attribute that I shared with her, and it was so easy to put myself in her shoes. I loved her ambition, bravery and determination to do whatever it takes to achieve her dream of flying. Very soon though, things started to make more sense, and I started enjoying this book so much, that I was unable to put it down. Overwhelmed with many characters, struggling to remember their names. I wasn’t sure what exactly was happening, and I felt like a school girl meeting my school friends for the first time. It took me a while to get started at the beginning. Amazing stories of multiple characters, through many years – summed up in compact chapters. I thought I would struggle reading this book because of its size. More than half a century later, Hadley Baxter, a troubled Hollywood starlet beset by scandal, is irresistibly drawn to play Marian Graves in her biopic, a role that will lead her to probe the deepest mysteries of the vanished pilot’s life. In 1940s London, after a series of reckless romances and a spell flying to aid the war effort, Marian embarks on a treacherous, epic flight in search of the freedom she has always craved. When she witnesses the roll, loop and dive of two barnstorming pilots, she is determined that one day, she too will take to the skies. In 1920s Montana, wild-hearted Marian Graves spends her days roaming the rugged forests and mountains of her home. ![]() I was shaped to the earth like a seabird to a wave ![]()
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