London, 1942: the Blitz is over but the war rages on. With the country still fighting for its existence, a young girl takes to the skies... 'Whether the author knows about WWII planes as intimately as he does the Tower of London, or whether his research of both is simply meticulous, his descriptions of flying and learning to fly rival those of the classics of Antoine de Saint-Exupery; they are viscerally exciting, quite breathtaking' Magic Fiction Since Potter.