Author: Jane Falloon

Publisher: New Africa Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781901866438

At the age of 20, Lady Mary Westenra married Abe Bailey, a South African tycoon more than twice her age. Cut off from her life in County Monaghan, Lady Bailey began taking flying lessons in secret. With astonishing rapidity, she became one of the world's most celebrated aviators, setting various records and achieving numerous firsts, before setting out on the journey that would make her name - London to Cape Town.