description: A fictitious account of Amelia Earhart's last flight, with flashbacks to her childhood and difficult marriage. Amelia and her raffish, drunken navigator, Noonan, crash-land on a desert island. They fight, touch madness and finally fall in love, before taking off again on only half a tank of petrol.
language: English
title: I Was Amelia Earhart
titlecomplete: I Was Amelia Earhart
characters: Amelia Earhart
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Literature, Adult, Adult Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 2523
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist
publisher: Vintage Books