In Wings, bestselling author Danielle Steel tells the story of a young woman who fights the odds and becomes a world-renowned aviator. From her family's dusty farmland airstrip near Chicago, the child Cassie O'Malley would look at the planes sitting shimmring in the moonlight. Her First World War veteran father Pat wanted his son to be a pilot, not his reckless red-haired daughter. But ever since she could remember, Cassie had felt the pull of taking to the skies, and her father's partner Nick, fellow air ace and airborne daredevil, was willing to break all the rules to teach her to fly. When Cassie was invited to California to become a test pilot, her record-breaking flights soon made her a media darling. Risking her life, pushing herself to her limits, in a world preparing for the Second World War, she decided to chart her own course and pursue her own destiny whatever it cost her. Wings is set in a time of constant change, when the world was on the brink of war and the skies were filled with adventurers, a time when courage and daring forever changed modern-day aviation.
In Wings, bestselling author Danielle Steel tells the story of a young woman who fights the odds and becomes a world-renowned aviator. From her family's dusty farmland airstrip near Chicago, the child Cassie O'Malley would look at the planes sitting shimmring in the moonlight. Her First World War veteran father Pat wanted his son to be a pilot, not his reckless red-haired daughter. But ever since she could remember, Cassie had felt the pull of taking to the skies, and her father's partner Nick, fellow air ace and airborne daredevil, was willing to break all the rules to teach her to fly. When Cassie was invited to California to become a test pilot, her record-breaking flights soon made her a media darling. Risking her life, pushing herself to her limits, in a world preparing for the Second World War, she decided to chart her own course and pursue her own destiny whatever it cost her. Wings is set in a time of constant change, when the world was on the brink of war and the skies were filled with adventurers, a time when courage and daring forever changed modern-day aviation.
From small-town America to a world on the cusp of World War II, Wings is an uplifting story about one woman's fight to fulfil her dreams.
Danielle Steel is one of the world's most popular and highly
acclaimed authors, with over ninety international bestselling
novels in print and more than 600 million copies of her novels
sold. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her
son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her
work with the homeless; and Pure Joy, about the dogs she and her
family have loved.
To discover more about Danielle Steel and her books visit her
website at www.daniellesteel.com
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Steel's novel of a daring woman pilot circa WWII was a PW bestseller for eight weeks. (Oct.)
Steel has cranked out another predictable melodrama. Cassie O'Malley's dad is a pilot and owner of the airfield where Cassie develops her love of flying and flying machines. Dad doesn't believe women are meant to be pilots and at first refuses to let Cassie fly. When she proves what a truly gifted pilot she is, she is allowed to work for her father. She enters an air show and is spotted by the wealthy millionaire and airplane manufacturer Desmond Williams. Cassie is lured to Los Angeles to promote and test Desmond's planes. Soon, Desmond marries her in order to ensure her loyalty and control her life. Cassie's true love, Nick, feels he is too old and poor for her and runs away to England to join the Royal Air Force. The rest is fairly predictable, but libraries should expect huge demand for this. [Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/94.]-Dawn L. Anderson, North Richland Hills P.L., Tex.
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