Veterinarian Vanessa March is about to refuse when her mother’s friend asks her to accompany her 17-year-old son Timothy to Vienna to visit his father… until Carmel mentions seeing Vanessa’s husband, Lewis, in newsreel footage of a circus fire in Austria. Of these, Airs Above the Ground is one of my favorites. Some of them have held up surprising well over the years, despite the inevitable dating that any contemporary novel experiences as time moves on and it is set no longer in the present but in the past. Stewart may be best known today for her blockbuster Arthurian saga (The Crystal Caves, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment, The Wicked Day), but it was her romantic suspense novels which first gained her recognition. Slower-paced than today’s frenetic thrillers, Stewart’s books offer readers a subtler, more leisurely and perhaps more nuanced experience. Well before there was Nora Roberts or Jayne Ann Krentz, there was Mary Stewart, whose romantic suspense novels thrilled an earlier generation of women readers. ★★★★ Airs Above the Ground by Mary StewartĪlso by this author: This Rough Magic, The Gabriel Hounds, Nine Coaches Waiting Guided by the girls, this will fly.Airs Above the Ground, by Mary Stewart (review) No matter whether Mary Stewart is at the top of her form (and she wasn't in her last-This Rough Magic- 1964), or what charming off-the-tourist track spot she uses for a setting, her melodramatic recreations have a homing instinct for the best seller lists. ''It's all so beastly complicated,'' as Vanessa would surely say, but it's also good lighter than air entertainment. Lewis turns up incognito- and don't forget the Lippizaner horses, where the title comes from (it's the name for one of their fabulous leaps). Van and Tim find and join the burned up circus, where her professional skill is in demand. She is running after her husband Lewis, who was last seen in a newsreel clip with a beautiful blonde at an Austrian circus fire when he should have been in Sweden.

Soooo.Mary Stewart has taken Vanessa, a young married English veterinarian, to Austria with her seventeen year old cousin Tim, who is running away from his fluffy smother-mother.

Horses, like dogs, are the eternal reader favorite animals.

Circuses, as the ringmaster always says, are for children of all ages. Austria is the place where the pastries, the Lippizaner horses, and the international intrigues come from.

Airs above the ground by mary stewart