The Wild Air

By Rebecca Mascull

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ISBN: 9781473604421
Themes: historical realistic fiction Family

Preface

The Wild Air is about a young girl named Della Dobbs whose whole life is changed when her Great Aunt Betty comes to stay with them from America.

Della has always been somewhat of an outsider in her family and feels like she is plain, uninteresting and has no skills. Aunt Betty shows her quite how wrong she is.

Through Aunt Betty Della discovers a love of building kites which gradually builds into a love of aeroplanes and the desire to be an aviatrix.

Della doesn’t count on the resistance she will face from her own family and from men in the profession. Just as it seems that Della is making progress War comes along and interrupts everything she has worked so hard for.