The Flying Shadow

It is 1935. Robert Owen is the only son from a Welsh vicarage, now a brilliant pilot and flying instructor, recently of the Royal Air Force. He has taken a new job at the flying school at Best, a prosperous cathedral town in England. Flying has never seemed so alluring and so terrifying. Human frailty is tested in the drilling and repetition of hours in flight, and Robert’s skills as a pilot and in diplomacy with pupils with delusions about their competence are tested to their limits. And then he falls in love, risking his heart as well as his body in the air. 

About the author

John Llewelyn Rees (1911-1940) was a British author and Royal Air Force pilot who died in August 1940 during a training exercise during the Second World War, north of London. His widow, the novelist Jane Oliver (also published by Handheld) established the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize for young writers in 1942.

Summary

Robert Owen is the only son from a Welsh vicarage, now a brilliant pilot and flying instructor, recently of the Royal Air Force. He has taken a new job at the flying school at Best, a prosperous cathedral town in England. Robert’s skills as a pilot and in diplomacy with pupils with delusions about their competence are tested to their limits.

Product details

• Authors: John Llewelyn Rhys, Rhys John Llewelyn
• Assisted by: Daniel Kilburn (Introduction), Luke Seaber (Introduction)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2022
• EAN: 9781912766642
• ISBN: 978-1-912766-64-2
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Handheld World War 2 Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / World War II, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), HISTORY / Military / Aviation, War & combat fiction, Aerospace & aviation technology, FICTION / World Literature / Wales, Flying, aircraft, RAF, Romance