Izzy's War

Set against the backdrop of World War 2, this is the story of a remarkable group of women pilots

A smashing heroine, a thoroughly satisfying story that will make you want to laugh and cry. I really did enjoy this novel

Isla is the best, the funniest, the cleverest, the most enjoyable...writer in Scotland today. I can guarantee that you too would enrich your life beyond all measure by discovering Isla Dewar

Dewar's extraordinary gift is to make the reader care about the eventual fate of every one of her characters

Isla Dewar is a warm-hearted and gifted storyteller

A realist, observant and needle-sharp, Isla Dewar can be very funny

appealingly spirited...sparkiness, freshness and verve

Funny, eccentric but real and readable are the hallmarks of Isla Dewar's novels and they are here in spades as we follow the WW2 life and loves of Izzy, a pilot in the Air Transport Auxiliary.

Isla Dewar was born in Edinburgh. She wrote articles for magazines and newspapers for many years before she wrote her first novel, KEEPING UP WITH MAGDA, in 1995. She lives in Fife with her husband, a cartoonist.

Vicar's daughter Izzy feels hugely guilty that she's having a very good war. Having learned to fly in a travelling circus before the war, she's now joined the Air Transport Auxiliary as one of their few female pilots and is having the time of her life. The only cloud on the horizon is having to lie to her father about her exact role in the ATA. Her father is against the whole notion of women flying - he certainly wouldn't approve of her becoming a 'spitfire girl'. 
 
Izzy also feels distinctly out of place among the more upper class ladies of the ATA. She would love to be as worldly as her flighty housemate, Julia, or as sophisticated as society wife Clare. But when Izzy finds herself falling for the charms of a dashing American doctor it is to Julia and Clare that she turns for help...

Isla Dewar

No-one can tell a story quite like Isla Dewar, the queen of Scottish romance.

A girl, Nell was convinced, should have a good time at seventeen, have met her true love at eighteen, be engaged at nine, and marry at twenty-one. 
 
While her mother regards the Locarno Dancehall as a den of iniquity, for seventeen-year-old, shop-girl, Nell McClusky, it's the centre of the universe. Where else is she going to meet the man of her dreams who'll take her away from the hum-drum realities of life on a council estate in 1950s Edinburgh? 
 
At first Alistair Rutherford doesn't look that promising. He dresses more like a student than Nell's idol, Buddy Holly. But Alistair comes from a wealthy family and is studying to be a lawyer, two things that mean that Nell soon has plans to leave her dance hall days far behind her. But the reality of marriage is far different to Nell's romantic notions....

Isla Dewar

Praise for A Winter Bride

No-one can tell a story quite like Isla Dewar, the queen of Scottish romance.

Books by Isla Dewar

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