A deeply moving page-turner about a woman’s search for her sister. History seamlessly blends with fiction in breathtaking prose to create a nuanced novel that touches the heart. Anna Michaels, the author Pat Conroy called “astonishing,” is at the height of her powers in this stunning historical suspense.
Includes When We Grew Wings, another full-length, lyrically beautiful historical novel by this author.
Bluebird Flying Backward takes readers from the Jazz Age to the Center of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. In 1925, after a fierce fight with her prominent father and her perfect sister, daredevil Riley “Sam” Samuels, ran away from her posh Atlanta home to join the Mile High Flying Circus in Colorado. One of the young aviators who took her in was Charles A. Lindbergh. Sam became his wing walker and was flying high…until she received news that plunged her family into a nightmare. Their desperate days at Smith College, the scene of the crime, ultimately destroyed the Samuels family. Through the years Sam rebuilt her life with help from her beloved Southern grandmother and her indomitable Aunt Flo from Englewood, New Jersey. She even carved out a place for herself as one of the few female fliers of her time to own a charter service and flying school.
Seven years later, Sam is living quietly in the back of her office and managing her private demons when she receives a phone call from an old friend who is now the most famous aviator in America. Charles A. Lindbergh’s baby is missing and he needs her help. Her return to the northeast plunges Sam into the search for the kidnapped baby and resurrects her shadowed past. When Sam sets out to discover what really happened seven years ago, will she dig up the truth or will she finish destroying her family? In the skilled hands of Peggy Webb writing as Anna Michaels, Sam’s journey is both heart-breaking and redemptive, a must-read.
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