![]() ![]() That matters, but what matters more is the inarguable plausibility of Queenie and Maddie themselves, two brilliant, courageous, dead clever women who seem impossibly charming and yet wholly real. ![]() Wein, in her own author's afterword (or "Debriefing"), maintains the plausibility of every historical detail contained herein - and Wein, herself, is a pilot, adding a tangible authenticity to the descriptions of Maddie's breathtaking flights and more earthbound mechanical repairs. The book opens with Queenie being detained in a grand French hotel that's been transformed into a Nazi prison - and from there, she writes her "confession": a heartening, and occasionally heartbreaking, account of her friendship with Maddie, and the amazing challenges the two faced as wartime women doing the work of men. Wein tells the story of a Scottish wireless operator, Queenie, and a British pilot, Maddie, who forge an unshakable friendship against the backdrop of World War II. So here's what you need to know, and not a word beyond that: Even the two-sentence summary at Amazon reveals more than I knew when I started this book, and I'm glad that I didn't read the synopsis until today. I read the book without knowing a thing about it, and that's just the way I'd like to recommend it to you. ![]() It's going to be hard to talk about Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Verity without revealing any of the beautiful surprise that is this novel. ![]()
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