STAIRWAY TO THE STARS

STAIRWAY TO THE STARS
Nick Heddle

An illicit wartime romance materialises when presenters of Ghost! Haunted Live visit an old, disused airfield to make a TV broadcast. A scandalous affair between a Wing Commander and a junior Aircraftman during the Battle of Britain. Through the extended advertising breaks in the broadcast, we travel back to wartime Britain to learn how the Wing Commander ‘bends his kite’ at the end of the runway and later loses a leg to become ‘Wing Com. Tin Leg’. A chance meeting with Queen Elizabeth at the opening of the new operating theatre at the RAF Ely Hospital leads the couple into lofty English social circles where they are introduced to the likes of Clementine Churchill, Noel Coward and Glenn Miller.

288 pages, paperback