The Boy with Wings

"The Boy with Wings" by Berta Ruck is a tale about a Welsh woman named Gwenna Williams who moves to London during the early 1900s and develops a crush on Paul Dampier. The story begins with Gwenna and her friends enjoying a flying exhibition and dreaming of adventure. As Gwenna begins her new life, the novel captures the thrill of her youthful eagerness as she experiences new friendships and begins to fall in love with Paul Dampier, an airman who seems to embody the adventurous life she's looking for. As the story continues, she dreams of flying and self-discovery, set against the backdrop of a society quickly approaching the start of World War I.