The Shadow of Wings

by June Knox-Mawer

Thirty years after Amelia Earhart's disapearance over the South Pacific, journalist Laura Harrington flies to Fifi and discovers a photograph of a mother she never knew and, determined to discover the truth about her parents, sets off on a quest that brings her face to face with the Earhart mystery

321 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

June Ellis was born on May 10, 1930 in Wrexham, Wales, UK, daughter of Frank Ellis, an accountant. She raised in rural Denbighshire. She worked on the Chester Chronicle. In 1951, she married Ronald Knox-Mawer (1925-2009), a barrister and member of the colonial judiciary, they had a son a and a daughter. The marriage lived in Arabia and Fiji, that inspired her writing. In 1972, they returned to UK.

Published since 1961, in 1992 her novel Sandstorm won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Knox-Mawer was also a noted broadcaster which included a long time association with BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.

June died on April 19, 2006, survived by her husband and children.

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

The concept of this book was interesting. To take a historical mystery and incorporate it into a modern story was pure genius and left me wondering where fiction stopped and non-fiction took over. I would still be very interested in knowing how much fact was included in the book.