I'm one of the people who stumbled across the book after watching the the mini-series on PBS way back in the early 80's as a child. Like the other reviewer states, this book works best when read in the order of the trilogy, Flambards, The Edge of the Cloud, Flambards in Summer, and for a finale Flambards Divided. It tells the story of a young girl, Christina, in the years directly leading up to the First World War. Aviation...
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The book "Edge of the Cloud" is the second novel in the Flambards Trilogy by K.M. Peyton and earned her the Carnegie Medal. Suitable for teens, it is still a fascinating story for adults (it is one of my favorites). This is the story of a young English woman in the years right before, and during the start of, WWI when women's roles were changing and aviation was starting to take off so to speak. Read "Flambards" first...
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