I wasn't able to connect with any of the characters and found this very dry and boring. I hoped I would have liked it more, I thought I was going to.

Wings to Fly is a painful story about a girl's life in Scotland in the 80's and it's essentially about religious division in the society and how a person, particularly a woman, can get caught in the thick of it.

Everything is confusing for the young mind of Cathy as a preteen, but adults are either too embarrassed, too bigoted or too clueless to explain anything. Cathy is too shy to ask, and she has questions ranging from her physiology to existential worries. Without any answers, she has to assemble her own warped truths. Family secrets play a role too, and Cathy grows up in a fractured world where she frantically prays to a 'forbidden' goddess for a Protestant - Holy Mary - because she needs to believe that someone will look after her despite the fact that she has nobody to talk to. This preteen confusion is written very well.

Cathy moves on as a shy teen, only to succumb to problems that could have easily been avoided if there was sufficient talk about the realities of life, regardless of it being improper to talk about. The story this book tells is not only about how unfair the world can be to girls, but also about how harmful it is for society to be broken up in two by any kind of beliefs, especially religious ones. A young person can't understand why they shouldn't be friends with someone just because of the church their family go to, and it creates generations upon generations of pain, as evident by the histories of both Cathy as well as her family.

I thank to the publisher for the free ebook through NetGalley in exchange to my honest review. This has not affected my opinion.

Fantastic read. Could not put it down. Pleasantly surprised by the depth of the authors writing style. Not my normal type of book.

DNF: I wasn't able to connect with the characters or the story. It just wasn't for me.