Giveaway - Flight by Anne Vines
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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 after falling in love with a battle-hardened American fighter pilot.
Nothing will be the same again.
About Flight
In 1942, American servicemen appear on the streets of wartime Melbourne. Though Australians enjoy American films and music, some Melburnians find it confronting to meet real Americans, even though the Yanks have come to protect Australia from a feared Japanese invasion.
American flyer Peter can barely remember a time when he didn’t need to fight. His life is still a flicker away from nightmare; he only feels at home in a fighter plane. When he comes to Melbourne, the girl he wants is Faye, but he’s not in the race. He’ll never be the marrying kind. Yet Faye is the first woman he’s going to miss, more than his other friend, Tivoli dancer, Iris.
Faye finds herself engaged to Melbourne’s most eligible man. But he never looks at her as if there is no one else in the world. Then Peter gives her just that look. She must decide what she wants, and learn how to fight for it. Snobs and moralists in Melbourne say that nice girls don’t go out with Yanks. Faye and Iris face new choices and dangers in a time of change. And then the war intervenes, with life-changing consequences for Peter and Faye.
About Anne Vines
Anne Vines is a Melbourne-based fiction writer. Her novel, The Ship Wife, was published in 2023. Her short stories have appeared in Award Winning Australian Writing, 2015, Word U Up, 2014, Wasafiri Magazine Online, 2016, Ring of Words, 2018, and Boroondara Literary Awards Anthology, 2020.
Anne won the Boroondara Award in 2014 and the Keith Carroll Award in 2020. She was commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2008, and in the Varuna HarperCollins Award in 2007.
She was also short-listed for the Alan Marshall Award, The Age Short Story Award and the international Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
Anne has worked on both her novels at Varuna Writers’ Centre.
Buy link https://www.amazon.com/Flight-novel-Anne-Vines-ebook/dp/B0F8Q87NZV/
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