Download The Aviator's Wife: A Novel AudioBook Free
In the nature of Loving Frank and The Paris Partner, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls again the drape on the matrimony of 1 of America's most outstanding lovers: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. For much of her life, Anne Morrow, the shy little princess of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has stood in the shadows of these around her, including her millionaire daddy and vibrant more aged sister, who often steals the spotlight. Then Anne, a college or university senior with concealed literary aspirations, journeys to Mexico City to invest Christmas with her family. There she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo trip over the Atlantic. Enthralled by Charles's confidence and fame, Anne is for certain the celebrated aviator has scarcely observed her. But she actually is wrong. Charles considers in Anne a kindred nature, a fellow adventurer, and her world will be changed forever. The two marry in a headline-making wedding. Hounded by adoring crowds and hunted by an insatiable press, Charles shields himself and his new bride-to-be from prying sight, departing Anne to feel her life dropping back to the shadows. Inside the years that follow, despite her own major accomplishments - she becomes the first accredited feminine glider pilot in the United States - Anne is viewed basically as the aviator's better half. The fairy-tale life she once longed for provides heartbreak and hardships, finally forcing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire to have independence, and embrace, finally, life's infinite choices for change and pleasure. Sketching on the rich record of the twentieth hundred years - from the overdue twenties to the mid-sixties - and having cameos from such notable personas as Joseph Kennedy and Amelia Earhart, The Aviator's Partner is a vividly imagined novel of a complicated marriage - exposing both its dizzying highs and its own destructive lows. With stunning ability and elegance, Melanie Benjamin provides new understanding into what made this impressive relationship endure.
