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You will enjoy this if you like home-front stories of 1914, early aviation, romance tested by honour, and tales where a child shows real courage.
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What happens when a bride who fears motherhood meets a boy who will not break his word? In 1914, a Guardsman's wedding, a Paris dinner and a German flier with a two-inch thumbnail connect private lives to the coming war. It gives you a close look at society, flight and faith, and begins with Franky and Margot's January wedding.
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- 1A fashionable bride meets a hard truthFree
- 2A test flight in the Bois brings cousins together
- 3A Paris dinner and a boast about the Day
- 4Patrine Saxham walks into danger
- 5Dr. Saxham, his son and a scout's promise
- 6A boy stolen and a house in grief
- 7A secret mission leaves the ground
- 8Patrine faces her own conscience
- 9What the story says about honour, flight and change
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A fashionable bride meets a hard truth
The story opens in January 1914, when Franky, Viscount Norwater, a young Guardsman, marries Margot Mountjohn, whom he calls Kittums. She is rich, twenty years old and ruled by her ladies' club. In June, at the Paris Grand Prix week, she learns she is to have a child.
Margot weeps and rages. Her friends had given her good luck charms to keep this very thing away, and she believed in them. At lunch under the roses at Nadier's restaurant, Franky asks her why she fears it. She answers that her mother died at her birth, and that she married knowing nothing.
Franky wants a son, because his scoundrel uncle would otherwise inherit the title. His love turns him gentle, and the book sets this private fear beside the public storm that is coming.
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About 12 h 50 min to read.Questions about Aquello que tiene alas: una novela de actualidad
What is That Which Hath Wings about?
It follows a young society woman, a flying inventor, a German officer and a Boy Scout through the summer of 1914 and the first year of the Great War.
Who is Richard Dehan?
Richard Dehan is the author of That Which Hath Wings. The novel follows linked households and gives its narrator a strong voice on faith, honour and war.
What does the title mean?
It comes from a verse in Ecclesiastes about a bird of the air carrying a voice. In the novel, aeroplanes and flight carry news, danger and hope.
Is it a true story?
It is fiction with a narrator who looks back across years of war. Real events such as Sarajevo, the retreat from Mons and the fighting in Flanders form its background.
Is it easy to follow?
Yes in its pace: short chapters, lively scenes of dinners, flights and battles, and a narrator who speaks to the reader keep the story moving.