Suzy Henderson

Today I want to introduce my readers to Elinor Florence, author of a new Canadian wartime novel called Bird’s Eye View . Bird’s Eye View tells the story of a young woman from the prairies whose fictional home town of Touchwood, Saskatchewan becomes an air training base. Fired with patriotism, she joins the air force herself – one of 50,000 Canadian women who enlisted to support the fighting men. Rose Jolliffe travels overseas and becomes an interpreter of aerial photographs, spying on the enemy from the sky, searching out bomb targets on the continent. But she keeps in touch with the home front through frequent letters, so readers get a bird’s eye view of the events taking place back in Canada, as well as the action in Europe. Since Elinor herself grew up on a former wartime airfield, I asked her how that inspired her novel. ***** By Elinor Florence Canada didn’t see combat at home during World War Two, but the face of the country was changed forever b