Book Club: Night Flight (and NYR book no.3)

I confess I didn't actually manage to finish in time for book club this month, but the others did, and our reviews and scores are now on the main site here. We read it because the Guardian book club did & thought it was amazing, and guess what, so did we. Turns out it is a really wonderful read, beautiful, poetic and best of all for busy folk in book clubs, short. It scored 74%, so firmly up there in our top-10. I just finished it. I actually also read Southern Mail by mistake, and liked that even more than Night Flight. I was reflecting how at the time these stories were written aviation wasn't the everyday experience it is to us now. Anyone who has marvelled at the beauty of the clouds, or flown through the night and watched the sun set, or the dawn come up on a long-haul flight will recognise the beautiful, elegaic mood of what Saint-Exupéry is trying to portray. The marvel is how entrancingly well he does it.