The Wild Air, Catherine Harvey
The Wild Air, Catherine Harvey
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The Wild Air

Author: Catherine Harvey

Narrator: Catherine Harvey

Unabridged: 13 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/04/2017

Synopsis

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.

(P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton

About Catherine Harvey

Catherine Harvey has narrated for BBC TV and Channel 4, and is currently the signature voice (continuity) for the True Movies, True Movies 2 and True Entertainment channels. Her audiobook narrations include Barbara Taylor Bradford’s Playing the Game. She appeared in the film Oscar and Lucinda and in several television shows and stage productions. She studied for one year with Sir Ian McKellen at Cameron Mackintosh Professorship of Contemporary Theatre. Her commercials include Now Magazine, Daily Express, Daily Star, OK Magazine, Evening Standard,  Britannic Insurance, UPS, American Express, British Heart Foundation,  and Cable & Wireless.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thebooktrail

Visit the locations in the novel - The Wild Air Put this book on your TBR pile if you love history,historical fiction, women ahead of their time and the thrill of going on one heck of an adventure - the world of early aviation. This novel amazed and astounded me in equal measure and I've spent the re......more

Goodreads review by Lady Fancifull

Hat Trick In Three With her third novel, the Edwardian set The Wild Air, Rebecca Mascull has done what she did in her two earlier novels – found a way to hook the reader’s heart to that of her central character, so that the reader absolutely cares about their journey, roots for them and, in this case......more

Goodreads review by Karen

It is always a reading delight to find a book that both entertains, enthralls and informs, and Rebecca Mascull has done it again with this story that features a young girl who has a passion for flight. Not so usual for a young girl in the Edwardian period but along the way she finds plenty of inspir......more

Goodreads review by Gill

OMG, Becca Mascull is a beautiful writer!! I was swept away by her descriptions of air and the behaviour of wind and the feeling of soaring through the clouds. Reading this novel is like an immersive experience, taking you right back to the early (pre-WW1) days of flight. Della Dobbs thinks of herse......more

Goodreads review by Louise

Rebecca Mascull has done it again! Another wonderful historical novel from this talented author. Rebecca is the master (mistress??) of the female protagonist who battles, and wins, against all the odds, in a mans' world. Della Dobbs is a marvellous character - fun, determined, wise - and I followed......more

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Just loved it! What a wonderful and inspiring story. Jill Mansell

What a stunning book . . . beautifully written, impeccably researched, and utterly addictive. Louise Beech, author of How to Be Brave

Della Dobbs is a wonderfully feisty and ambitious heroine and I cheered her all the way. Although the novel is packed with adventure and peril, at its heart there is a quiet tenderness which I found very poignant. Juliet West, author of Before The Fall

The writing flies off the page and into the heart. Louise Walters, author of Mrs Sinclair's Suitcase

I loved this book, riveting and compelling, original and wonderfully written Rowan Coleman

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