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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Long Flight Home

Long Flight Home

Anderson, Lainie

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN10: 174305663X
ISBN13: 9781743056639
Publisher: Wakefield Pr
Published: May 10 2019
Pages: 366
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

The First World War is over and air mechanic Wally Shiers has promised to return home to his fiancée, Helena Alford. But Wally never reckoned on charismatic fighter pilot Ross Smith, and an invitation to compete in the world's most audacious air race.

A 10,000 prize has been offered for the first airmen to fly from England to Australia. Smith is banking on an open-cockpit Vickers Vimy, a biplane with a fuselage that looks ominously like a coffin.

And who can resist a hero? Wally writes to Helena to say he won't be home for another year - and the love of his life is left holding her hand-stitched wedding dress ...

Using war diaries, letters and Churchill Fellowship research from along the race route, Long Flight Home recreates one of the most important - and largely forgotten - chapters in world aviation history.

Lainie Anderson's ambitious and moving novel is told through her narrator, Wally Shiers. The tale spans the decades and crosses the globe, and at his journey's end we're left peering down from an open cockpit on two beacons of truth. There is no heroism without honour. There is no legacy without love.

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