Description Inspired by the real team of female pilots who trained World War II soldiers, The Flight Girls is a stunning debut novel about friendship and its power to make us soar Audrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly.
When James goes missing in action, those bonds help her summon the courage to cross the front lines and give her the faith that they will return stateside--together..
The fast friendships she forms with her fellow WASP women reignites a spark of hope in the face of a war that moves closer to home every day.
She seizes the opportunity to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots, hoping to make everything she\'s lost count for something.
Following the attack, Audrey struggles to reconcile her devastating losses--colleagues, friends and the piece of her heart she left in the air.
Then one fateful day, she gets caught in the air over Pearl Harbor just as the bombs begin to fall, and suddenly, nowhere feels safe.
And it\'s why she insists she is not interested in any dream-derailing romantic involvements, even with the disarming Lieutenant James Hart, who fast becomes a friend as dear as the women she flies with.
It\'s why she signed up to train military pilots in Hawaii when the war in Europe began.
It\'s why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home in Texas.
Description Inspired by the real team of female pilots who trained World War II soldiers, The Flight Girls is a stunning debut novel about friendship and its power to make us soar Audrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly
