num_pages: 344
description: This captivating breakout noveltold in alternating viewpointsbrings readers from the skies of World War II to the present day where a woman is prepared to tell her secrets at last. Estranged from her family since just after World War II Mary Browning has spent her entire adult life hiding from her past. Now eighty-seven years old and a widow she is still haunted by secrets and fading memories of the family she left behind. Her one outlet is the writing group shes presided over for a decade though shes never written a word herself. When a new member walks ina fifteen-year-old girl who reminds her so much of her beloved sister SarahMary is certain fate delivered Elyse Strickler to her for a reason. Mary hires the serious-eyed teenager to type her story about a daring female pilot who during World War II left home for the sky and gambled everything for her dreamsincluding her own identity. As they begin to unravel the web of Marys past Mary and Elyse form an unlikely friendship. Together they discover its never too late for second chances and that sometimes forgiveness is all it takes for life to take flight in the most unexpected ways.
language: English
title: The Secrets of Flight
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks