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 Wings over Valetta

by

Tracy Cook

As the bombs rain down, love and hope refuse to surrender.

Malta, 1941. As bombs fall across the island and invasion looms, Kitty Campbell is haunted by the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption years before. Desperate to find her child, Kitty begins searching for answers – but uncovering the trail is complicated by her father’s secretive past and a mysterious stranger on the island.

Working as an Aircraft Plotter at Fighter Command in Valletta, tracking the fierce air battles raging in the skies above Malta, Kitty uncovers secrets that could change everything – and faces an impossible choice between duty, love, and the child she has never forgotten.

REVIEW

Kitty Campbell and her mother Lydia live on the island of Malta and she is the daughter of a Naval Commander and when she got pregnant without being married, her father took things into his own hands and told Kitty that he had put her daughter (who she named Alice) up for adoption as it would be "for the best".

When her father dies Kitty sees it as the perfect time to try and find Alice, but she just needs to get the information she needs to trace her, but her father doesn't leave her any paperwork, but here father's will does bring up more mysteries when it states that her family home in England needs to be sold and half the proceed go to a mysterious person.

Kitty's mother has had enough and wants to return to England, but Kitty remains in Malta and wants to help the war effort and becomes an Aircraft Plotter at Fighter Command in Valletta where a certain RAF Pilot, Bill is stationed. 

Can Kitty trust Bill enough to tell him about Alice and to help her find out who the mystery person is in her father's will so that she can try to stop the sale of her beloved home in England. Does that house hold the secrets to where Alice could be?

Oh my goodness, this was a corker of a book. I think it could well be one of my favourites of the year. The attention to detail and the research that must have gone into it made it a real page turner. Full of great characters and Kitty was adorable. I can't believe this is the author's first book. I really hope there is another in the pipeline. I will definitely be recommending it.