Airs Above the Ground, Mary Stewart
Airs Above the Ground, Mary Stewart
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Airs Above the Ground
The suspenseful love story from the Queen of the Romantic Mystery

Author: Mary Stewart

Narrator: Antonia Whillans

Unabridged: 9 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/09/2019

Synopsis

The original writer of romantic suspense, Mary Stewart leads her readers on a thrilling journey across mid-century Europe in this tale of adventure and deception, sure to be loved by fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym.

Vanessa March's husband Lewis is meant to be on a business trip in Stockholm - so why does he briefly appear in newsreel footage of a fire at a circus in Vienna, with his arm around another woman? Vanessa flies to Austria to find her husband, inadvertently becoming involved in a mystery that spans three countries... and the famous dancing stallions of the Spanish Riding School.

The moonlight flooded the meadow, blanching all colours to its own ghostly silver. The pines were very black. As the stallion rose in the last magnificent rear of the levande, the moonlight poured over him bleaching his hide so that for perhaps five or six seconds he was no longer an old broken-down piebald, but a haute école stallion of the oldest line in Europe.

'Mary Stewart is magic' New York Times

'From opening to finale, this zestful romantic adventure grips, amuses, frightens and delights' Sunday Telegraph

'One of the great British storytellers of the 20th century' Independent

(P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Mary Stewart

Mary Stewart was one of the 20th century's bestselling and best-loved novelists. She was born in Sunderland, County Durham in 1916, but lived for most of her life in Scotland, a source of much inspiration for her writing. Her first novel, Madam, Will You Talk? was published in 1955 and marked the beginning of a long and acclaimed writing career. In 1971 she was awarded the International PEN Association's Frederick Niven Prize for The Crystal Cave, and in 1974 the Scottish Arts Council Award for one of her children's books, Ludo and the Star Horse. She was married to the Scottish geologist Frederick Stewart, and died in 2014.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on December 05, 2018

This is another enjoyable Mary Stewart suspense novel (sorry, I'm never going to stop talking about her books. They're just so much fun). Airs Above the Ground, written in 1965, may not be her best novel, but it's set in Austria, a lovely country and one of my favorite places in the world, so betwee......more

Goodreads review by Candi on November 20, 2016

Airs Above the Ground is a stimulating adventure through the Austrian landscape of the 1960s. If you are looking for a quick and entertaining diversion from some of your more demanding literary reads, then this book may be just the ticket. I became a devoted fan of Mary Stewart this year when I disc......more

Goodreads review by Baba on August 27, 2020

A tale that sees married 24 year old Vanessa March espies her husband in a newsreel from Austria (he said he was working in Stockholm) alongside a beautiful young women at a circus fire, where an elephant run loose for awhile! Her nephew, Timothy, a 17 year old supposed mummy's boy, wants to go to A......more

Goodreads review by Fiona on January 30, 2023

I can’t think how to categorize Mary Stewart. She deserves a genre all of her own. I suppose I would liken her writing to the charm of D.E. Stevenson with the uncanny eerie atmosphere of Celia Fremlin and Shirley Jackson... but sort of.. all squashed together. Like everything is so quaint and gentle......more

Goodreads review by Lois on July 24, 2014

I hadn't read Mary Stewart since she was contemporary fiction; a couple of titles maybe, of which the only one I (dimly) remember at, urk, 50 years distance was Madame, Will You Walk? (Later: Talk, not Walk. Remembered it even less well than I thought...) Interesting to revisit both the writer and t......more

Quotes

From opening to finale, this zestful romantic adventure grips, amuses, frightens and delights Sunday Telegraph

Mary Stewart is magic New York Times

She set the bench mark for pace, suspense and romance - with a great dollop of escapism as the icing Elizabeth Buchan

A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors. Harriet Evans

The stylish, educated novels of Mary Stewart . . . arguably inspired the deluge of bestselling romantic fiction that has flooded the market in recent decades. Guardian

Mary Stewart sprinkled intelligence around like stardust . . . She built the bridge between classic literature and modern popular fiction. She did it first and she did it best Herald

A writer of considerable skill . . . [with an] intuitive feel for the past and its re-creation in vivid, poetic detail Telegraph

A wonderful wordsmith . . . Stewart was among the first authors to seamlessly integrate a mystery and a romance thus allowing the two to come alive and complement each other. Scotsman

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