'Mary Stewart specialises in novels which have you alternately holding your breath as to what might happen, or chuckling to yourself. 'A cracking good story, beautifully written. thrilling action in a stunning Austrian setting, I loved it' Reader reviews of Airs Above the Ground : 'She set the benchmark for pace, suspense and romance - with a great dollop of escapism as the icing' Elizabeth Buchan 'One of the great British storytellers of the 20th century' Independent
'I'd rather read her than most other authors' Harriet Evans 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 - and inadvertently becomes involved in a mystery surrounding the famous dancing stallions of Austria's Spanish Riding School. Vanessa March's husband Lewis is meant to be on a business trip in Stockholm.
'This zestful romantic adventure grips, amuses, frightens and delights' Sunday Telegraph This is a novel which will bring pleasure to everyone.A thrilling tale of adventure and deception set in 1950s Austria, from the queen of romantic suspense and author of Madam, Will You Talk? Her equally characteristic understanding of animals provides her with her finest writing. With her characteristic flair for description Mary Stewart brings alive the Austrian countryside with its clear air, rolling meadows, onion-topped churches and fairy-tale castles. hardcovervintagemysteryvintagemarystewart -DJ in aged protective cover. They are also the peak points of the story, which happen literally in high places: a terrifying night on the rooftop of Schloss Zechstein a high-wire act in the Circus Wagner the fighting finish in the Gleinalp. Used copy of Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart for sale on Pangobooks. The "airs above the ground" are the beautiful leaps and dancing steps made by the white Lipizzan stallions of the Spanish Riding School. Lee Elliot and - among others - the famous white stallions of Vienna. In her charge is young Timothy Lacy, who also has an urgent problem to solve.īut what promised to be no more than a delicate personal mission turns out to involve the security forces of three countries, two dead men, a circus and its highly colored personnel, a mysterious Mr. Vanessa March, two years married and very much in love, is propelled from London to Vienna by a shocking discovery.
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