The Flying Circus

The Flying Circus

The award-winning, national bestselling author of <i>Whistling Past the Graveyard</i> sends an unlikely trio on an exhilarating adventure high above the American Midwest of the 1920s in a spirited, “entertaining surprise” (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>) of a novel in league with <i>Water for Elephants </i>and <i>The Aviator’s Wife</i>.<BR><BR>They are barnstormers…the daredevil fliers whose airborne acrobatics are a thrilling spectacle crisscrossing the Heartland skies. Rising above each of their circumstances in their own “flying circus” are Cora Rose Haviland, a privileged young woman left penniless when her father’s fortune is lost; Charles “Gil” Gilchrist, a World War I pilot whose traumatic past fuels his death-defying stunts; and eighteen-year-old Henry Schuler, the son of a German immigrant farmer, on the run from shocking accusations. Each holds secrets that could destroy their makeshift family. And, on their adrenaline-charged journey of self-discovery, one of them must pay the price.<BR> <BR>With the poignant and powerful storytelling voice that made <i>Whistling Past the Graveyard</i> “a classic, a book people want to pass along for generations to come” (<i>Feathered Quill Book Reviews</i>), Susan Crandall artfully weaves the stories of three unforgettable characters, each searching for salvation that waits just beyond the horizon.