Airs Above the Ground
- Author Mary Stewart
- Narrator Antonia Whillans
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Run Time 9 hours and 14 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction.
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What to expect
Vanessa March's husband Lewis is meant to be on a business trip in Stockholm - so why does he briefly appear in newsreel footage of a fire at a circus in Vienna, with his arm around another woman? Vanessa flies to Austria to find her husband, inadvertently becoming involved in a mystery that spans three countries... and the famous dancing stallions of the Spanish Riding School.
The moonlight flooded the meadow, blanching all colours to its own ghostly silver. The pines were very black. As the stallion rose in the last magnificent rear of the levande, the moonlight poured over him bleaching his hide so that for perhaps five or six seconds he was no longer an old broken-down piebald, but a haute école stallion of the oldest line in Europe.
'Mary Stewart is magic' New York Times
'From opening to finale, this zestful romantic adventure grips, amuses, frightens and delights' Sunday Telegraph
'One of the great British storytellers of the 20th century' Independent
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Critics Review
From opening to finale, this zestful romantic adventure grips, amuses, frightens and delights
Mary Stewart is magic
She set the bench mark for pace, suspense and romance – with a great dollop of escapism as the icing
A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I’d rather read her than most other authors.
The stylish, educated novels of Mary Stewart . . . arguably inspired the deluge of bestselling romantic fiction that has flooded the market in recent decades.
Mary Stewart sprinkled intelligence around like stardust . . . She built the bridge between classic literature and modern popular fiction. She did it first and she did it best
A writer of considerable skill . . . [with an] intuitive feel for the past and its re-creation in vivid, poetic detail
A wonderful wordsmith . . . Stewart was among the first authors to seamlessly integrate a mystery and a romance thus allowing the two to come alive and complement each other.
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