![]() Maddie is often described as just being “a slip of a lass,” so men often underestimate her. Eventually, her superiors catch on to the fact that she’s experienced, and they allow her to fly. It’s frustrating for her when, at the beginning of the war, she’s confined to the ground-despite being more qualified than many of the male pilots she coaches as one of the women working in the radar room. This begins Maddie’s journey of learning to work on airplanes and eventually fly them during World War II. ![]() By age 16 she was working on and riding her own motorcycle, and in 1938, she met Dympna Wythenshawe and discovered that women could pilot airplanes. She grew up in a working-class family in Stockport, England and developed a love of engines. Maddie is one of the novel’s protagonists and is Julie’s best friend she narrates Part Two of the book. ![]() Note to Amadeus von Linden from Nikolaus Ferber. ![]()
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