Vanessa Giese
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Vanessa Giese
Vanessa Giese, born in 1978, lives in Dortmund. She holds a doctorate in journalism and is a self-employed management consultant. The Woman Who Conquered the Sky is her first novel.
Vanessa Giese, born in 1978, lives in Dortmund. She holds a doctorate in journalism and is a self-employed management consultant. The Woman Who Conquered the Sky is her first novel.
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Year of Publication: 2021
Vanessa GieseYear of Publication: 2021
The Woman Who Conquered the Sky
Frankfurt am Main, 1889: When the young seamstress Katharina (Käthe) watches a balloonist take to the skies for the first time, she is spellbound. Shortly afterwards, the airship crew trooper Hermann Lattemann literally falls at her feet. She takes her fate into her own hands, starts working for him, they fall in love – and soon it is no longer enough for her to just mend his balloons:...