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It is 1940 and Britain is at war with Germany. In London, eighteen-year-old Susan Banks longs to do her duty. Her secret ambition is to learn to fly - to serve her country and realise her dream. But she knows it is out of the question for a girl like her; a foundling, unwanted and unloved and dependent on strangers for her welfare.
Just as she fears she will be trapped forever in a life of servitude and loneliness, she meets Tony Richards, a flying instructor based in Hampshire. And when she is forced to flee London, she heads out into the country. She is taken in by the kindly landlord of the local inn and his daughter. As Susan works hard to earn her keep, and her friendship with Tony - now recalled to duty - blossoms into love, she dares to hope that things are at last looking up for her. But then she receives devastating news - Tony is missing in action. And Susan wonders if she'll ever see the man she loves again and realise her dream of becoming a Spitfire girl...
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It is 1940 and Britain is at war with Germany. In London, eighteen-year-old Susan Banks longs to do her duty. Her secret ambition is to learn to fly - to serve her country and realise her dream. But she knows it is out of the question for a girl like her; a foundling, unwanted and unloved and dependent on strangers for her welfare.
Just as she fears she will be trapped forever in a life of servitude and loneliness, she meets Tony Richards, a flying instructor based in Hampshire. And when she is forced to flee London, she heads out into the country. She is taken in by the kindly landlord of the local inn and his daughter. As Susan works hard to earn her keep, and her friendship with Tony - now recalled to duty - blossoms into love, she dares to hope that things are at last looking up for her. But then she receives devastating news - Tony is missing in action. And Susan wonders if she'll ever see the man she loves again and realise her dream of becoming a Spitfire girl...
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The book tells the story of a girl who was told she was a foundling and she accepts this like a 'badge of disgrace', and feels that she is not worthy of anyones love as not even her own parents could love her so why would anyone else love her.
Susan continues to think that she is unloveable, even when she meets a very handsome man called Tony Richards and he is the first person to show her any kindness. We follow Susan as she goes from facing heartache after heartache and having nowhere to call her own. The only thing she has ever owned and ever loved her with pure devotion is her faithful dog Charlie and he provides many laughs throughout the book. We follow Susan as she holds on to her dream of flying a spitfire and having friends who love her just for being her. She soon meets friends and they become like family to her and she soon feels what love is all about. This is a book which will have you as a reader wishing nothing but happiness for this beautiful girl with a heart of gold and have you believing that your dreams can come true.
This is one book I highly recommend as a very addictive book but if readers think as I did to be honest I thought it was going to be based on the Air Transport Auxiliary but this was only mentioned briefly at the end of the book along with its founder of the female department Pauline Gower. I still recommend this book as a very good read which keeps the readers attention fully throughout the book.
I had never read any of Lily Baxters books but will certainly order some more!!
Fabulous read
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