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I have two weeks. `A remarkable book'
Daily Mail.
She was awarded the Scottish Aero Club's Watson Cup for best student pilot in 2003 and it was her love of flying that partly inspired the idea for her bestselling, award-winning novel Code Name Verity.
Elizabeth is a member of the Ninety-Nines, the International Organization of Women Pilots.
She is married with two children and now lives in Perth, Scotland.
Elizabeth Wein was born in New York, and grew up in England, Jamaica and Pennsylvania.
Look out for Elizabeth's other books Black Dove, White Swan and Rose Under Fire.
Fans of The Book Thief and Carmen Reid's Cross My Heart will love this.
Her novel Rose Under Fire was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Costa Award 2014.
Elizabeth Wein is a leading voice in young adult historical fiction. . .
Truth or lies? Honour or betrayal? Everything they've ever believed in is put to the test .
The story begins in `Verity's' own words, as she writes her account for her captors.
When a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France, she is captured by the Gestapo and becomes a prisoner of war.
Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a special operations executive.
You'll shoot me at the end no matter what I do.'
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, Code Name Verity is a bestselling tale of friendship and courage set against the backdrop of World War Two. '
I have two weeks
