Review - Come Fly With Me by Camille Di Maio

Come Fly With Me by Camille Di Maio

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Release date: 18 February 2025

Back cover blurb: It’s 1962, the dawn of the jet-set era. Hope takes flight for two Pan Am stewardesses navigating an adventurous new life in a novel about love, friendship, and escape by the bestselling author of The Memory of Us and Until We Meet. Welcome to a glamorous gateway to the jet age. Judy Goodman and Beverly Caldwell have different reasons for putting continents and oceans between themselves and their disparate pasts, but they have the same desire—to earn a coveted position on an elite team of stewardesses for Pan American Airlines. For Judy, running away from an oppressive marriage in small-town Pennsylvania is a risk she must take. And for Beverly, leaving behind the gilded cage of New York society will allow her to pursue a future of her own making. Embracing the culture, etiquette, and strict rules of a thrilling and unpredictable new world above the clouds, Judy and Beverly are bound for faraway destinations and opportunities that other women dare only to dream about. But as they build a deep friendship, encounter love and danger, and discover what’s truly important, Judy and Beverly must also confront the secrets that could change their lives all over again—and forever.

1962, the new jet-set era, and Pan American (Pan Am) Airways is recruiting for its highly sought after position of stewardesses. For ambitious women across America, it is their dream role.

Some women will do anything to get a role with Pan Am, and there are two woman are even more desperate than the other hopeful recruits. 

Beverly, desperate to escape her family, despite the privilege of her upbringing. She knows that there is more to the World than glitzy parties and champagne, and is determined to make her mark on the world.

Judy, trapped in an abusive marriage, the Pan Am job is her only hope of escape and survival. But Pan Am do not accept married women.

Can Judy overcome the first hurdle of the application? Or has her escape plan failed before it can even be put into action.

The two of them have very different lives and upbringings, but they are more alike than they first realise.

As they embark on a rigorous training regime together, they become firm friends. Both sense that the other is holding something back, but each of them is a little afraid to let their truths escape.

When they do, they realise they are even more alike. 

There is a tragic ending to this novel, which is hinted at most of the way through, but it is handled sensitively and is worth the tears that will inevitably fall.

Come Fly With Me is available via Amazon online and all good book shops.

Thank You to the publishers who approved my request via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.