The good pilot Peter Woodhouse

a novel

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Alexander McCall Smith: The good pilot Peter Woodhouse (2018, Pantheon)

247 pages

English language

Published March 15, 2018 by Pantheon.

ISBN:
978-1-5247-4753-4
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OCLC Number:
1007567396

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"From the beloved and best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and La's Orchestra Saves the World, a heartwarming tale of hope and friendship set during World War II, in which a British farm girl, an American pilot, and a German soldier are brought together by an unlikely hero: a (very cute) border collie. Val Eliot, a land girl working on an English farm during the war, finds herself in charge of protecting a rescued border collie named Peter Woodhouse from the owner who mistreated him. When Val meets Mike, an American Air Force pilot stationed nearby, she realizes that the safest place for the little dog is alongside Mike at the base. With the love and attention of the pilots, Peter Woodhouse becomes Dog First Class, the mascot of the U.S. Air Force, boldly accompanying the officers on their missions--until a disaster jeopardizes the future of …

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Air pilots
  • Dogs
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Human-animal relationships