The author, Mary S Lovell, wrote biographies - 'A Scandalous Affair', 'Bess of Hardwicke' and 'The Mitford Girls'. These I have listened to and very much enjoyedso I snt for her first one, written in 1986, about Beryl Markham, the first woman to fly east>west across the Atlantic It is perhaps not so wdell written as the others, but she was a most interestingcharacter caharacterand was an expertshe also was an expert