Airs Above the Ground - Softcover

Mary Stewart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144472052X ISBN 13: 9781444720525

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011

Synopsis

The original writer of romantic suspense, Mary Stewart leads her readers on a thrilling journey across mid-century Europe in this tale of adventure and deception, sure to be loved by fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym.

'From opening to finale, this zestful romantic adventuregrips, amuses, frightens and delights'Sunday Telegraph

'One of the great British storytellers of the 20th century'Independent

Vanessa March's husband Lewis is meant to be on a business trip in Stockholm - so why does he briefly appear in newsreel footage of a fire at a circus in Vienna, with his arm around another woman? Vanessa flies to Austria to find her husband, inadvertently becoming involved in a mystery that spans three countries... and the famous dancing stallions of the Spanish Riding School.

The moonlight flooded the meadow, blanching all colours to its own ghostly silver. The pines were very black. As the stallion rose in the last magnificent rear of the levande, the moonlight poured over him bleaching his hide so that for perhaps five or six seconds he was no longer an old broken-down piebald, but a haute école stallion of the oldest line in Europe.

'Mary Stewart is magic'New York Times

About this title

From the Publisher:

This was the first Mary Stewart book I ever read, and it hooked me immediately. I have since read every book she's ever written, many of them multiple times. As a young teenager, I looked to the heroines (who are always young women facing difficult situations with courage, grace and intelligence) as role models on how to become a woman. I love the mix of exotic locals, mystery and romance in Mary Stewart's novels.

From the Inside Flap:

Lovely Vanessa March did not think it was a strange for her husband to take a business trip to Stockholm. What was strange was the silence that followed. Then she caught a glimpse of him in a newsreel shot of a crowd near a mysterious circus fire in Vienna and knew it was more than strange. It was downright sinister.

Once again Mary Stewart unfolds a masterpiece of intrigue, terror, and suspense in this headlong-paced tale of a young wife's search for a missing husband....

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 144472052X
• ISBN 13: 9781444720525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384