Maddie takes on the name and the papers of Katharina. In the second part of the plot, the story is told from Maddie’s point of view, and reveals the events that transpired after the plane crash that left both girls in France. She used to be graceful and a woman that all the women radio operators envied. The guard who translates is really offput by this woman who was nicknamed Queenie by women operators, and who never gives up her name to reveal that she is Lady Julia Lindsay MacKenzie Wallace Beaufort-Stuart from Castle Craig. She was fixing engines, and flying planes. Through her confession, she tells the story of her friendship with Maddie, the pilot, and how she came to enter France in the first place. She was always doing the unthinkable. The latter is soon captured by Nazi authorities, detained in a former hotel, and forced to write a confession detailing the British war effort, which she decides to write in the form of a novel. On board are two best friends, a pilot (code name: Kittyhawk) and a spy (code name: Verity). The Auxiliary was formed by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) – which is referenced as Churchill’s Secret Army – to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe.Ī British spy plane crashes in the fictional town of Ormaie. The two main characters are extremely brave young girls working for the Air Transport Auxiliary in German-occupied France. Due to this, there are numerous references to Peter Pan and Neverland in the book. The Skinnyĭespite the historical setting of World War II, the book presented the roles of the female pilots during the time. The smooth, clear voice let the story flow and I absorbed each moment of it.

Usually I have issues more with the narrators and I tend to not get into the stories, but this was the exact opposite. Both narrators were enjoyable to listen to. It was paired with Daphne du Maurier’s classic Rebecca. This was an audiobook I downloaded last summer from SYNC. She is the pilot who flew me into France – an Allied Invasion of Two. But the story of how I came to be here starts with my friend Maddie. All I have to do is cough up everything I can remember about the British War Effort. He has said that I can have as much paper as I need. Possibly the only way out for a girl caught red-handed doing dirty work like mine – and I will do anything, anything to avoid SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden interrogating me again. But I look at all the dark and twisted roads ahead and cooperation is the easy way out. You’ll shoot me at the end no matter what I do.

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