The Aviator's Wife [B1262]

2013 HCDJ 1st edition in excellent condition. "The history [is] exhilarating . . . The Aviator's Wife soars."-USA Today. When Anne Morrow, a shy college senior with hidden literary aspirations, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family, she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic. Enthralled by Charles's assurance and fame, Anne is certain the aviator has scarcely noticed her. But she is wrong. Charles sees in Anne a kindred spirit, a fellow adventurer, and her world will be changed forever. The two marry in a headline-making wedding. In the years that follow, Anne becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States. But despite this and other major achievements, she is viewed merely as the aviator's wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, life's infinite possibilities for change and happiness.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Well written. Very interesting."; "Wonderful! I suppose I, like most people had only a vague idea of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. I really enjoyed this book much more than I thought I would. Getting Anne's viewpoint is overdue. I'm so glad that she finally has a voice."; "The fiction captures so poignantly the cost of being tethered to greatness, and the silence that women of her era were trained to master - and suffer within. In the end, it is not Charles's flight across the Atlantic that lingers, but Anne's inward journey - more subtle, more tragic, and far more enduring."