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MacColl, Michaela

Promise the Night

264 pp. | Chronicle | November, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8118-7625-4 $16.99
(4) 4-6 The story of early aviationist Beryl Markham's childhood in Kenya is interspersed with newspaper articles and diary entries detailing her pioneering 1936 trans-Atlantic flight. The fictionalized story is well researched; some heavy-handed dialogue and uncontextualized colonialism (along with a bratty-sounding protagonist) mar the offering. A useful author's note is appended. Reading list.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

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