Not the Booker prize shortlist: a long look at First Time Solo by Iain Maloney

The story of a tyro pilot in the second world war isn't awful, but it's hard to find any warmer endorsement

Early on in First Time Solo, Jack Devine, a farmer's son from Aberdeenshire, is called up to the RAF in 1943 and travels to London to join his fellow trainees. Then we get this:

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