Book Review: ‘The Pilot’s Daughter: A Novel’ By Meredith Jaeger

The Pilot’s Daughter is a Great book! It has everything you want in a historical fiction novel…great story, compelling characters and twists and turns that keep the reader engaged. It’s a tale of two women on a quest for the truth. In 1945 Ellie Morgan and her mother get word that her father’s plane has gone down and there doesn’t appear to be any survivors. When his personal stuff is sent to them, Ellie finds love letters to another woman Lillian in NY and it seems to indicate she has a sister. Ellie is shocked by this and goes to her Aunt Iris, who isn’t shocked by it. Iris knew the woman from 1922 when she lived in New York and was a dancer, something Ellie never knew. Ellie decides to go to New York and Iris joins her and it brings back all sorts of memories for Iris, who we learned lived a life that she’s never talked about. The past for Iris involves nude dancing, a shady affair with a married rich man with a temper and murder. Ellie and Iris learn shocking truths as they investigate her father and the past of Iris. As they say the past can never stay buried and what they learn will change their lives going forward.

You can pick up The Pilot’s Daughter in stores on Tuesday, November 2nd from Dutton.