Despite my initial hesitation I truly got lost in this heartfelt and unique tale! Social distancing has led me to retreat into books even more than usual, and when I stumbled upon Alan Hlad’s The Long Flight Homein the NH Downloadable Books Consortium I was hesitant to dive into yet another WWII story. That being said, the genre of World War II historical fiction has been very popular in recent years and I have longed for a new time period to get lost in.
Yet Duchess's devotion and her singular sense of duty will become an unexpected lifeline, relaying messages between Susan and Ollie as war rages on-and proving, at last, that hope is never truly lost.REVIEW: The Long Flight Home by Alan HladĪs many of our library frequenters have observed I cannot turn away from a work of historical fiction. When Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, both know how remote the chances of reunion must be. The friendship between Ollie and Susan deepens as the mission date draws near. Those that do make the journey home to England can convey crucial information on German troop movements-and help reclaim the skies from the Luftwaffe. Codenamed Source Columba, the mission aims to air-drop hundreds of homing pigeons in German-occupied France. His quest brings him to Epping and to the National Pigeon Service, where Susan is involved in a new, covert assignment. Thousands of miles away in Buxton, Maine, a young crop-duster pilot named Ollie Evans has decided to travel to Britain to join the Royal Air Force. Hatched from an egg that Susan incubated in a bowl under her grandfather's desk lamp, Duchess shares a special bond with Susan and an unusual curiosity about the human world. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan-loyal, intelligent, beautiful-but none more so than Duchess. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. Summary: "It is September 1940-a year into the war-and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion.
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