The Summer skies by Jenny Colgan

Series: MacIntyre 

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Published: March 13, 2024 by HACHETTE INTL

Women´s fiction/own

Morag comes from a line of pilots and when her granddad calls that he is sick she goes to help. her family owns a flying route through the Scottish isles.

But Morag was involved in a horrible accident and has some trauma even though she claims she is fine.

I am so not in a review writing mood today, I am doing badly. Blergh, make it short!

Morag was nice, she did have some trauma, she did want to run away to Dubai. And clearly she belongs here, and not flying boring big planes.

There are some fun interesting people around. She meets a grumpy guy.

It all works out! I enjoyed it, it was a nice easy read. Perfect for the summer.

Morag McGinty is a Scottish lass from the remote islands that make up the northernmost reaches of the UK. She's also a third-generation pilot, the heir apparent to an island plane service she runs with her grandfather. The islands--over 500 dots of windswept land that reach almost to Norway--rely on their one hardworking prop plane to deliver mail, packages, tourists, medicine, and the occasional sheep. As the keeper of this vital lifeline, Morag is used to landing on pale golden beaches and tiny grass airstrips, whether during great storms or on bright endless summer nights. Up in the blue sky, Morag feels at one with the elements.

Down on the ground is a different matter, though. Her grandfather is considering and Morag wonders if she truly wants to spend the rest of her life in the islands. Her boyfriend Tim, from flight school, wants Morag to move to Dubai with him, where they'll fly A380s and say goodbye to Scotland's dark winters.

Morag is on the verge of making a huge life change when an unusually bumpy landing during a storm finds her marooned on Inchborn island. Inchborn is gloriously off-grid, home only to an ancient ruined abbey, a bird-watching station, and a population of one: Gregor Cameron, a visiting ornithologist from Glasgow who might have just the right perspective to help Morag pilot her course.