Family and friendship mean everything under the darkening skies of
wartime Britain.Daisy Maitland longs to learn to fly. Feisty and a
daredevil, she envies her beloved Aunt Pips who faced constant danger in
the frontline when she served with Daisy's parents, Robert and Alice, in
an independent flying ambulance corps during the Great War. Robert
suffered serious injuries risking his life to save the wounded from
no-man's-land and returned home to Lincolnshire, believing his career as
a doctor had been destroyed. With help, he recovered sufficiently to
serve the small village community which, like so many others, had
suffered terrible losses. Through the nineteen twenties and thirties
everyone struggled to come to terms with the aftermath of the
catastrophic war and their hopes lay with the next generation; with
Daisy and her cousin, Luke. Pips, married to George, lives in London but
during the holidays, Daisy goes to stay with her, for Pips will take her
to Brooklands to watch the car racing and to fly. With another war
looming, it is Daisy, Luke and their peers who must now face danger in
the fight for freedom. Enlisting in the Air Transport Auxiliary to
deliver Spitfires to the frontline, Daisy forges new friendships but
never forgets her childhood friend and cousin, Luke, who joins the RAF
to fly Spitfires in the Battle of Britain. Once again the Maitland and
Dawson families are united in their fear for their loved ones in
constant peril.
