TY  - BOOK
AU  - Billington, Rachel,
TI  - Clouds of love and war
SN  - 9781913491130
AV  - PR6052.I4 B55 2020
U1  - 823/.914 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London : 
PB  - Universe Press, an imprint of Unicorn Publishing, 
KW  - Air pilots
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Aerial operations, British
KW  - Families
KW  - England
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - fast
N2  - Occasionally panoramic, more often intimate, in Clouds of Love and War author Rachel Billington balances a detailed and highly researched picture of the life of a Second World War Spitfire pilot with the travails and ambitions of a young woman too often on her own. The result is both a gripping story of war and a sensitive story of love, a love that struggles to survive. Eddie and Eva meet on the eve of the Second World War. Eddie only wants to be a flyer, to find escape in the clouds from his own complicated family. However, the Battle of Britain makes a pilot's life a dangerous way to flee reality. Eva has her own passionate longing: to become a painter. When Eva's Jewish mother disappears to Germany, she is left alone with her elderly father. Both Eddie and Eva come of age at a time that teaches them that happiness is always fleeting, but there are things worth living - or dying - for. Through the connecting stories of these young people and their wider families, and against a background of southern county airfields, London, Oxford, Dorset and France, Rachel Billington brings the world of war time England, now eighty years in the past, back to life
ER  -