The Sky Is Not Enough
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The Sky Is Not Enough
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Narrated by:
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Jacqueline Milne
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By:
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June O'Sullivan
About this listen
1928, Cape Town. Newlywed Lady Heath embarks on her most daring adventure yet: a solo biplane flight from Cape Town to London. Already a trailblazer – a world-record athlete, Britain's first woman to parachute from a plane and to earn a commercial pilot's license – she is determined to prove that women belong in aviation.
Fiercely independent, Sophie charts her 10,000-mile route using pages from a road atlas, services her own aircraft, and defies every restriction placed on women. But, as she soars over the vast continent, memories from a traumatic past resurface: her mother murdered, her father imprisoned in an Irish asylum and a childhood shaped by repression.
Having been stricken with sunstroke, crash-landing in the wilderness and nursed by local women, thwarted at every turn by the authorities and ultimately seeking help from Mussolini, she at last lands in London – heels, furs and all.
Though celebrated, Sophie realises fame cannot free her from her past. She has conquered the skies but not the shadows that follow ...
©2026 June O’Sullivan (P)2026 Bolinda Publishing