Grand Ambition - Tapa dura

A grand sweep of a book, combining both derring-do plot with tingly love story ... the perfect read for armchair adventurers everywhere. - Elle Michaels is an adept storyteller, with a poet's eye for evocative detail ... her account has a powerful immediacy. [She] achieves that most difficult feat of depicting historical events as real and engaging, and does so with a spare eloquence that makes this book linger in the mind. - The Times Impressive far more than mere historical reconstruction, it is quite a feat of storytelling. . . Compelling few first novels could draw a reader to it as effectively as Grand Ambition. . . .An exciting, almost cautionary, well-told tale about a dangerous hunger for escape and self fulfilment. - Irish Times Lisa Michael's exhilarating 'Grand Ambition' is based on a true story ... made believable by Michaels's considerable poetic and descriptive flair ... a tragic and haunting love story - Guardian A compulsive and haunting read - New Woman Taut, tough and beautifully written - Eve A novel about love, life and loss that succeeds on every level - Financial Times Michaels s grandest achievement ... is her depiction of the young couple - of how they move from first meeting to passionate love, from their hasty marriage to their dangerous honeymoon. She treats these two lovers delicately and tenderly, without resorting to gauz

In November 1928, one year after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, a pair of young newlyweds set out to run the rapids of the Grand Canyon in a homemade boat. Swept up by America's obsession with feats of daring, Glen and Bessie Hyde hoped to set a record - she would be the first woman to run that treacherous stretch of the Colorado River. A month later they vanished without a trace. Based on the few known facts of Bessie and Glen Hyde's story and braiding the account of the young lovers' journey with Glen's father's desperate efforts to find them, Lisa Michaels creates a tale of suspense: a meditation on the line between risk and recklessness, and the passions that drive us to them.