The Way the Crow Flies Reader Review

Novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald is the author of the international bestselling novel The Way the Crow Flies.

Life on the move for eight-year-old Madeleine McCarthy is already the norm. Royal Canadian Air Force family is relocating to the base in Centralia, the site of the accident that prevented her father from battling the Germans during World War II. Her father jack is her hero. This is just one of their many new starts. 

By the time Madeleine turns nine; her innocent childhood has vanished when a fellow schoolmate is murdered. The father that she loves so dearly is caught up in a web of lies and must choose where his loyalties lie. Twenty years later Madeleine uncovers the truth about the catastrophe that changed her life forever. 

This is a powerful story, precisely layered with complex secrets, that properly depicts the optimism that embraced the early sixties. MacDonald incorporates the classic history of the Cold War and the space race into a beautifully written and equally compassionate novel.