The Spitfire Girl

By: Ellie Curzon

Many thanks to Bookouture for the ARC of this book and allowing me a stop on the book tour.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Sally has always been happiest flying her stunt plane, thrilling audiences across the world, with her oldest friend and dearest love Freddy. Until the war tears everything apart.

When she is approached by the Ministry of Defence, Sally jumps at the chance to be part of a classified project. Seeing the new, improved Spitfire plane, her jaw drops. She’s been chosen to run test flights and get it battle ready. This could turn the tide of war. But she can’t tell a soul, not even Freddy.

Even though she’s making sure the plane is safe for Royal Air Force pilots like her darling Freddy, her heart breaks as the secret weighs on their relationship. And as she tries to close the distance between them, disaster strikes. Freddy has been lost over Nazi-occupied France. And he was in the top-secret Spitfire.

Stunned, Sally can’t believe he took the plane on its first mission. But with Nazis on the hunt, time is running out. Sally must risk everything to stop the plane from falling into enemy hands and rescue her beloved Freddy. Will she find Freddy and bring him safely back to Bramble Heath, or will they be parted forever?

MY REVIEW

I didn’t really know what I was going to get when I started reading this book. Perhaps I thought I was going to get another WWII historical fiction like there are so many others. But this is very different.

There is so much that I enjoyed about this book. For one, it took place in one time period. And while I don’t mind dual timelines, it’s used a lot in WWII historical fiction so I was pleasantly surprised with this book. Additionally, I’m not a person that cares about knowledge of planes. However, this book really piqued my interest about the Spitfire plane!

The BEST part about this book was that Sally was such a strong, courageous female main character. She never hesitated and she was so brave. While she and those that surrounded her realized that she couldn’t fly a plane in combat, they knew and acknowledged her skillset was above everyone else’s.

There are moments of suspense and horror in this book – not horror as in horror movie, but horror as in the way Hitler’s followers treated others.

Overall, this was a beautifully written book and I’m so glad I got the chance to read it!

This book is available now, you can get it here.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ellie Curzon is the pen name of Catherine Curzon and Helen Barrell. Catherine and Helen began writing together in the spring of 2017 and swiftly discovered a shared love of the past and a uniquely British sort of story. They drink gallons of tea, spend hours discussing the importance of good tailoring and are never at a loss for a bit of derring-do.

Catherine Curzon is an author and historian of old Hollywood and even older royalty. In addition to a series of eighteenth century biographies and a sell-out play, she has written extensively for a number of international publications, and has spoken at venues and events across the United Kingdom. Catherine lives in a haze of Dean Martin atop a steep Yorkshire hill, with a rakish gentleman and a very woolly dog.

Helen Barrell has written two books on Victorian crime, and has appeared on BBC1 and Radio 4. She loves researching family history and rummaging in libraries and archives. Originally from the south-east of England, Helen now lives somewhere in the Midlands with a large ginger cat, who resembles a Viking, and a well-stocked 1960’s cocktail bar.