The Sky Is Not Enough

June O'Sullivan

Jan 2026 · Bolinda · Narrated by Jacqueline Milne

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In 1928, Sophie Peirce-Evans marries Sir James Heath. With her new titled status as Lady Heath, she embarks on her most daring adventure: a solo flight in a biplane from Cape Town to London. Already a trailblazer – a world-record athlete, Britain's first woman to parachute from a plane and first to earn a commercial pilot's license – she is determined to prove that women belong in aviation and to showcase the potential of an aviation route from the colonies. Fiercely independent, Sophie charts her 10,000-mile route using pages from a road atlas, services her own aircraft, and defies every restriction placed on women. But as she soars over the vast continent memories from a traumatic past resurface: her mother murdered, her father imprisoned in an Irish asylum, a childhood shaped by repression and loss. Stricken with sunstroke, crash-landing in the wilderness and nursed by local women, thwarted at every turn by the authorities, and ultimately seeking help from Mussolini, she finally lands in London – heels, furs and all. Though celebrated, fame cannot free Sophie from her past. She has conquered the skies but not the shadows that follow ...

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June O'Sullivan lives on an island in County Kerry. Her writing has appeared in the The Ogham Stone Journal, The York Literary Review, Seaside Gothic, The Storms Journal, The Waxed Lemon and Sonder. She is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. Her debut novel, The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife, was published in 2025. Her latest novel is The Sky Is Not Enough (2026).

Jacqueline Milne is a Dublin-based actor and voice artist who trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Her narration spans literary and commercial fiction, including Things in Jars by Jess Kidd, The Watchers by A.M. Shine, and Susanne O’Leary’s Sandy Cove and Wild Rose Bay series. She has also voiced titles in Chloe Walsh’s popular Boys of Tommen series and the character Edith Penrose in the VR game Ghost Town. Known for her warmth, range, and storytelling instinct, Jacqueline brings each narrative vividly to life.

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