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The Boy with Wings

Berta Ruck

The Boy with Wings

Paper book: €33.99

Digital: €12.99

Original publication
1915
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
683
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Romance
Moods
Fall in love
Translated from
English

Book summary

London, May 1914. Gwenna Williams, a young, dreamy Welsh typist, goes to a flying display at Hendon and picks out, among the postcards, the portrait of an airman, Paul Dampier. Soon afterwards she meets him at a dinner, and he promises to take her flying. Before long she goes to work in an aeroplane factory. Her friend Leslie, meanwhile, always has a piece of ironic advice for her.

A lively, romantic love story that brings back the excitement of the early days of flying, during the last summer before the war.

Its light tone and endearing heroine make it an enjoyable read in the language you are learning.

The plot

A plane takes off before her eyes. One Saturday in May, in London, Gwenna Williams, a young Welsh girl, sees aeroplanes for the first time.

The world of the book

London, 1914: a passion for planes. The first aeroplane flew in 1903. In 1914, flying is still an adventure, and every flight is a show.

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