RaveBookPage[Aikman\'s] most impressive feat yet ... Aikman’s research is thorough: These pilots left their homes in the USA for England in an effort to remake themselves, and Aikman is able to hold in one hand the women they intentionally became, while also sympathetically revealing the pasts they hid from sight ... Within the history we think we know so well lie unique, feeling individuals, working under constant threat of ever-present danger both to serve their country and for a taste of exhilarating freedom like they’d never known. Spitfires truly enthralls.
RaveBookPageMasterfully reinvestigates an infamous case in a thoroughly modern way, revealing the women behind the gruesome headlines and restoring dignity to Belle Elmore.
RaveBookPageA sweet and curious meditation on what we gain when we allow the natural world to teach us.
PositiveBookPageDeft ... A worthy tribute to the genre’s inception, where true crime texts were both narratives of compassion and rallying cries against injustice.
Lydia Reeder
RaveBookPageMonumental ... By restoring Jacobi’s fascinating story to the forefront of the historical imagination, Reeder returns to us a much-needed, inspiring voice that is equally suited to our current moment in time.
