The Boy with Wings

An English novel. London, May 1914. Gwenna Williams, a young and dreamy Welsh typist, goes to a flying display at Hendon and picks out, among the postcards, the portrait of an airman, Paul Dampier. She meets him soon afterwards at a dinner party, and he promises to take her up flying. Between her dreams, the ironic advice of her friend Leslie and office life, she goes to work at an aircraft factory. But the summer passes, and war is drawing near. A lively, romantic love story that captures the excitement of the early days of flight.