Hurricane girls is about the lady pilots, who before and during the war wanted to use their flying skills to help the war effort. The book covers the formation of the ferry service charged with moving all type of aircraft around the country.
There is detailed history on the lives of those courageous women who were flying with no radios and very limited restrictions.
They had to be twice as good as their mail counterparts because of the tremendous prejudices of women flying at that time. Some of them had tragic lives and some went on to be successful after the war.
Well written and researched.

I wanted to read this book as soon as I saw it for a number of reasons. Primarily, I live around a mile from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight base, so the Hurricanes, Spitfires and Lancaster are a regular visitor over my house. Secondly, my grandfather served in the RAF in WW2, and would often tell us grandkids about the lady pilots and how good they were at flying, especially the Polish ladies.

Naturally, this made me desperate to get my hands on this book and find out more. I'm so glad I did! These girls - wow! If only young girls were more like these ladies now, instead of taking selfies and obsessing over the Kardashians. What a great bunch, rebelling against the rules of what ladies should be doing and giving the boys a run for their money! I'd love to have been a part of their world. I bet their were great company. If I had a daughter, I'd want her to see these girls as their role models.

I loved this book. It gave such a lovely insight into their world and personalities. It was quite emotional at times, and I found myself Googling them to see their pictures.

I thoroughly recommend this book - get your teenage girls reading it too! We need more ladies like this in the spotlight!

A fascinating real-life account of the women of WW2 who were allowed to fly - starting from a requirement of hundreds of flight hours and only allowed to ferry the smallest planes from factory to squadron base, as the war heightened less initial experience was required and training was provided on larger and larger planes. No over-dramatisation, but a factual and interesting narrative.