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✈️ Love, War and Forbidden Desire in Wartime Melbourne

Melbourne, 1942. The world is at war, and the city is on edge.

Faye Beauregard, the daughter of one of Melbourne's most prominent families, is torn between duty and desire. When battle-hardened American fighter pilot Peter lands in Australia, a chance encounter at the Windsor Hotel throws them into each other's orbit"and nothing will be the same.

'Her eyes burned into me. Why not, I wanted to say, though I knew damned well why not. It made me blue, gazing at her, with my bad luck and all her class. Once she'd learned the first thing about me, she'd know I was the last guy for her... Usually, I wanted to throw a girl over my shoulder, not sink to my knees and worship her.'

Faye is disillusioned by Melbourne's rigid social expectations and the passionless courtship of Clive Wilson"the city's most eligible bachelor.

For years, I had been dying to fall in love, to have a man fall in love with me, and this was what I had won? A fait accompli proposal from childish, unromantic Clive.

Faye is drawn to Peter's raw intensity and quiet vulnerability. He is captivated by her joy, beauty and defiance of convention.

But love in wartime is never simple.

Peter is an outsider"an American, a soldier, and a man shaped by loss. Pragmatic, weary and haunted by ghosts from the past, he struggles to reconcile with his true identity, while Faye wrestles with the weight of expectation.

Their love challenges the unspoken rules that govern class, religion and respectability.

Despite their differences, they share an intense emotional and romantic bond that threatens to upend their lives.

They must each decide what they're willing to risk for a chance at something real.

FLIGHT is the second novel by award-winning Australian author Anne Vines.

Set in the shadow of World War II, it delves into the traditional notions of heroism and the glorified battles of the war, confronting the true cost of becoming a hero and the psychological toll of killing.

At the same time, it explores the themes of passion, resilience and choice, shining a light on the often-overlooked, invisible battles fought by women on the home front.

 FLIGHT is a poignant, powerful love story that brings to life a forgotten chapter of Australian history.

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'An impossible and impossibly compelling love story that soars across the oceanic divides of class, trauma and nations... beautifully told and steeped in Australian and world history.' " Lee Kofman, author of The Writer Laid Bare

'A glamorous, mismatched couple faces more than family opposition in a wartime Melbourne fractured along class, race and religious fault-lines.'
 " Cath Kenneally, author of Room Temperature

Published by Glass House Books (Interactive Publications)
ISBN Paperback: 9781923435049

ISBN eBook: 9781923435056 

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