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**"Tense, heartwarming and life affirming, The Long Flight Home gives a fresh slant on heroism in WWII."
--Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling author of In Farleigh Field, The Tuscan Child and the Royal Spyness novels
Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, **The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours --a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice.
It is September 1940--a year into the war--and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan--loyal, intelligent, beautiful--but none more so than Duchess. Hatched from an egg that...
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**_Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II,_ The Long Flight Home _is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours --a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice._** It is September 1940--a year into the war--and as German bombs fall o
**_Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II,_ The Long Flight Home _is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours --a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice._** It is September 1940--a year into the war--and as German bombs fall o
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