Nick and Diane’s flight rerouted to Gander – a rural town with a population of just 10,000, home to an airport whose history as a refueling spot for pre-jet engine aircraft left it with runways to rival far bigger cities.Īs Continental 5 approached Newfoundland, Nick saw dozens of planes lined up in rows. Following the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the US airspace closed and, under an effort dubbed Operation Yellow Ribbon, more than two hundred commercial aircraft heading to the US diverted to Canada. That sounds like an adventure,” Diane recalls today. “I thought, ‘Canada, I’ve never been to Canada. An American divorcee who’d just turned 60, she was returning from visiting her son, who was in the US Air Force and stationed in England. “I looked out the window because I thought he might not be telling us the truth, and maybe an engine was on fire,” Nick tells CNN Travel today.Īt the other end of the aircraft, Diane took in the news. He was heading to Texas for work, and had no idea where Newfoundland was. Nick was a British businessman in his 50s who worked in the oil industry. “There are problems in US airspace,” the captain said, giving no further details. Twenty years ago, Nick Marson and Diane Kirschke were strangers on board Continental Airlines flight 5 traveling from London Gatwick to Houston, Texas.įour hours or so into the flight, the pilot came over the intercom and announced the airplane would be diverting to Newfoundland, Canada.
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“‘Dors, min p’tit quinquin-’” Her husky voice frays to a thread on the second high note. Sitting on the edge of the bed in the front room, Blanche stoops to rip at the laces of her gaiters. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other. In thrilling, cinematic style, Frog Music digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers, and arrogant millionaires of jealous men, icy women, and damaged children. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice-if he doesn't track her down first. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. A French burlesque dancer risks everything to bring a killer to justice in this gripping historical novel from the author of Room: "her greatest achievement yet" (Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life). The Religion of the Stipendiary Magistrate Chesterton Includes a biography of the author. Chesterton died of congestive heart failure on 14th June 1936 and is buried in Beaconsfield just outside of London. In this volume we bring you his classic work A Book Of Essays. But he was prolific in many other areas he wrote plays, essays, loved to debate and wrote hundreds of poems. A large man – 6’ 42 and 21st in weight he was apt to be forgetful in that delightful way that the British sometimes are – a telegram home to his wife saying he was in one place but where should he actually be. 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This is a brilliant book and an essential read for both lovers of poetry and scholars wishing to understand the inheritance of silence that is the complicated birthright of contemporary women artists everywhere.”- Erin Belieu, author of One Above and One Below and Black Box “Baggott's positively oracular channeling of voices as diverse as Camille Claudel and Monica Lewinsky is so canny and artfully authentic that it seems possible that the poet here has truly acted as a spiritual medium for the muted and misrepresented voices she illuminates. Lizzie Borden in Love is a dangerous and elegant collection from one of America's finest young poets.” - Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Great with Child and Tender Hooks In reopening their lives, she is reopening history, retelling it intimately and urgently and wisely in the voices of the women themselves.Baggott's talent is almost spooky. 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