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Biographical note
Isla Dewar was born in Edinburgh. She wrote articles for magazines and newspapers for many years before she wrote her first novel, KEEPING UP WITH MAGDA, in 1995. She lives in Fife with her husband, a cartoonist.A smashing heroine, a thoroughly satisfying story that will make you want to laugh and cry. I really did enjoy this novel
Maureen Lee
Isla is the best, the funniest, the cleverest, the most enjoyable...writer in Scotland today. I can guarantee that you too would enrich your life beyond all measure by discovering Isla Dewar
Robin Pilcher
Dewar's extraordinary gift is to make the reader care about the eventual fate of every one of her characters
Scotland on Sunday
Isla Dewar is a warm-hearted and gifted storyteller
Catherine Ryan Hyde
A realist, observant and needle-sharp, Isla Dewar can be very funny
The Times
appealingly spirited...sparkiness, freshness and verve
Mail on Sunday
Funny, eccentric but real and readable are the hallmarks of Isla Dewar's novels and they are here in spades as we follow the WW2 life and loves of Izzy, a pilot in the Air Transport Auxiliary.
Love Reading
Vicar's daughter Izzy feels hugely guilty that she's having a very good war. Having learned to fly in a travelling circus before the war, she's now joined the Air Transport Auxiliary as one of their few female pilots and is having the time of her life. The only cloud on the horizon is having to lie to her father about her exact role in the ATA. Her father is against the whole notion of women flying - he certainly wouldn't approve of her becoming a 'spitfire girl'.
Izzy also feels distinctly out of place among the more upper class ladies of the ATA. She would love to be as worldly as her flighty housemate, Julia, or as sophisticated as society wife Clare. But when Izzy finds herself falling for the charms of a dashing American doctor it is to Julia and Clare that she turns for help...
Izzy also feels distinctly out of place among the more upper class ladies of the ATA.