“We have one thing in common. Each of us is desperate enough to take the risk. To turn our backs on who the world demands we be."
I’m Betty Martin with "Martin’s Must Reads" and that’s a quote from the Epilogue of Julie Clark’s novel The Last Flight. It’s the story of two women who are desperate to disappear from poisonous relationships and begin a new life with a new identity.
Claire is the wife of an abusive man, the son of a former U.S. Senator, who is about to announce his own run for the Senate. She spends a year planning and saving for a way out.
Eva, grew up in a Roman Catholic orphanage and attended Berkeley University until she was expelled for making drugs in one of her chemistry labs. Her boyfriend, the genius behind the plan and the star quarterback got off scott free. With nowhere to go and no money Eva succumbs to the allure of financial security offered to her by a drug dealer until she meets an older woman, a visiting professor, who loves her for who she truly is. Being tailed by the Feds leads Eva to the decision that it’s time to disappear.
As the story begins she is waiting at the airport for Claire with a plan to convince her to switch plane tickets and identities. Later that night Claire finds out that the plane Eva was on crashed into the ocean with no survivors and most of the careful details to Claire’s plans have been shattered. How will she survive?
If you’re looking for a consuming read about how two courageous women who did what they felt was impossible, then you must read The Last Flight by Julie Clark.
