Yes, this is what I am reading at the moment. Nothing so far would make me disagree with the review on this link. “An excellent and haunting – but not easy – novel that makes me want to read Mason’s other novels.” Except I don’t find Angel all that difficult. In fact it is, but this is not hard, far more rewarding in human terms than the flashy and superficial The Da Vinci Code. Indeed, in her novel The Illusionist, Mason entered into Da Vinci Code territory. See also, on the broad theme of fictions (and non-fiction speculative histories) about Jesus, The “real” Jesus Stories. The Illusionist was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1983.
The market does not always reward quality in the literary arts, however.
Angel (Denver, Spinster Ink Books reprint, 2003) is a fictionalised biography of German test pilot Hanna Reitsch. “As the world’s first female test pilot and helicopter pilot, Hanna flew everything the Third Reich had: from the first helicopter (the Focke-Achgelis) to the prototype of a piloted V-1 rocket.”
The Junkers JU-52, first an airliner, then a bomber.
Surry Hills Library of course.
