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INHERIT THE SKIES
Two women watched as Adam Bailey made his momentous attempt to take the first prototype box kite into the air; two women whom fate had already thrown together and who were sworn enemies. Janet Tanner is the author of "Folly's Child".
This spirited family saga opens in the present and flashes back to its origins in England in the early 1900s. Gilbert Morse, head of a thriving motor company and master of an imposing estate in the Somerset hills where a batch of willful offspring reside, seizes an opportunity to get a flying machine in the sky. About the same time, his illegitimate daughter, Sarah, finessed out of the affluent household by Gilbert's second wife and sworn enemy of her sexually rapacious half-sister Alicia, is carving out a career as a balloonist. Sarah and Alicia, rivals from their first meeting, remain so as Alicia marries the man Sarah loves, a pilot who will help bring Morse Motor works into the aviation age. The tale chronicles the machinations of various family members, but it is Sarah who endures and triumphs as head of the company. Her nascent feminism and details of the aviation business carry a story that, often intruded on by an omniscient author, dwindles toward the end, when members of the next generation are hurriedly introduced.
This spirited family saga opens in the present and flashes back to its origins in England in the early 1900s. Gilbert Morse, head of a thriving motor company and master of an imposing estate in the Somerset hills where a batch of willful offspring reside, seizes an opportunity to get a flying machine in the sky. About the same time, his illegitimate daughter, Sarah, finessed out of the affluent household by Gilbert's second wife and sworn enemy of her sexually rapacious half-sister Alicia, is carving out a career as a balloonist. Sarah and Alicia, rivals from their first meeting, remain so as Alicia marries the man Sarah loves, a pilot who will help bring Morse Motor works into the aviation age. The tale chronicles the machinations of various family members, but it is Sarah who endures and triumphs as head of the company. Her nascent feminism and details of the aviation business carry a story that, often intruded on by an omniscient author, dwindles toward the end, when members of the next generation are hurriedly introduced.
581 pages, Paperback
First published October 4, 1990
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About the author
Janet Tanner
42 books7 followersJanet Tanner is a prolific and well-loved author and has twice been shortlisted for RNA awards. Many of her novels are multi-generational sagas, and some – in particular the Hillsbridge Quartet – are based on her own working class background in a Somerset mining community. More recently, she has been writing historical and well-received gothic novels for Severn House – a reviewer for Booklist, a trade publication in the United States, calls her “a master of the Gothic genre.” Besides publication in the UK and US, Janet’s books have also been translated into dozens of languages and published all over the world. Before turning to novels she was a prolific writer of short stories and serials, with hundreds of stories appearing in various magazines and publications worldwide. Janet Tanner lives in Radstock, Somerset.
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November 16, 2024
Съвсем случайно попаднах на авторката и съм впечатлена.Все едно се качих на скоростно влакче. Толкова наситена със събития и герои,пълнокръвна сага. Да, вече звучи малко старомодно, на места наивно, има някои не много добри връзки, но не те оставя нито за миг спокойно до самия край. Издирих всичките й книги издадени на български и продължавам маратанона.
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