Airs Above the Ground

Airs Above the Ground

"Airs Above the Ground" is a novel by Mary Stewart, first published in 1965. The title is from Dressage.

Plot summary

Vanessa March, a qualified vet, is married to Lewis, who works in the Sales Department of Pan-European Chemicals. She believes him to be in Stockholm on business. However when having tea with her mother's schoolfriend, Carmel Lacy, in Harrods she learns that Lewis appears on a newsreel story from Austria concerning a fire at a circus. Carmel's seventeen year old son Timothy wants to visit his divorced father, Graham, in Vienna. Carmel, thinking Vanessa may be joining Lewis in Austria, asks is she could accompany Timothy to Vienna.

Vanessa watches the newsreel. Lewis is not only not in Stockholm, he is shown with his arm around a blonde girl. When she receives a message from Lewis postmarked Stockholm, Vanessa immediately agrees to travel to Austria.


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