# Miles McGinty

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- Authors: [Tom Gilling](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-gilling)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2015-09-03

## Description

Critically acclaimed, Tom Gilling's MILES MCGINTY is an inspirational and evocative tale of one man's determination to take to the sky. New South Wales, 1856: Miles McGinty and Isabel Dowling are born on the same night into different worlds. Miles is the illegitimate son of an actress in a troupe of travelling players, Isabel the rebellious daughter of a merchant banker, her home a red-brick mansion in one of Sydney's better suburbs. Both are destined to defy convention - and gravity. She rides in a balloon at the age of seven, defying the tweed-coated official who'd asked for a boy. He learns to float in mid-air with the aid of a mysterious showman and storyteller. But Miles becomes possessed by a secret ambition, the desire to build and ride in a flying machine. When his path finally crosses Isabel's, he knows he's met the only person who can share his adventurous vision.

## Editions

### Miles McGinty

- Publisher: tinder_press
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7223-552-7
- Published: 2015-09-03
- Language: en_GB