'This booklet is intoxicating; it made me think issues I by no means imagined sooner than. the area of flying is so entire, so distinctive and actual, it was once as though i used to be flying, as though i'll believe my wings. this can be an addictive secret, shrewdpermanent and compelling.' Jane Campion, director of The Piano and Bright Star

Flight - you are going to dream approximately it.

'She had by no means obvious the sky in all her lifestyles sooner than. How excessive may well she fly? What used to be the restrict? She was once already so excessive the earth was once not genuine. basically her within the sky. each spiral natural pleasure. This used to be Flight. It used to be for this she'd risked and persevered loads. It needed to be worthy it.'

The dream of having the ability to fly is now actual fact yet in simple terms the wealthy and robust can have the funds for the surgical procedure, medicinal drugs, and gene manipulation to turn into fliers. Peri, a negative woman from the areas, will sacrifice whatever to get her wings and subscribe to this elite however the fee is better than she may have imagined. So why then does she throw all of it away?

Feel the excitement and terror of flight - over vertiginous skyscrapers, into wild storms and throughout hypnotic wasteland - during this appealing and daringly imaginitive novel that explores the boundaries of self-transformation.

'A brilliantly conceived imaginative and prescient, daring in its execution and totally convincing in its element. once we Have Wings is that infrequent factor, a compelling learn that's either emotionally and intellectually satisfying.' Amanda Lohrey