A Year Of Marvellous Ways Fiction Drake is a young soldier

Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War

but one of them isn't leaving-they are defecting to the AVENGERS

by the arrival of the worldly Mary Crawford and her brother Henry

As media messiah he ascends to the very top of the freak-show heap before finally and apocalyptically spiralling out of control

demanding that flyers be chosen by merit rather than inheritance

A Year Of Marvellous Ways Fiction Drake is a young soldierMarvellous Ways is eighty nine years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. Lately she's taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it. Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man's last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous' creek, broken