Lindie Naughton

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Lady Mary Heath from Newcastle West in Co Limerick was one of the best known aviators of the 1920s, a time when the entire world had gone “flying mad”, thanks to the exploits of Lindbergh and Earhart. Although her life was short, it was packed with adventure and incident, with her greatest achievement a three-month flight from Cape Town to London undertaken between January and March 1928.

Lindie Naughton’s Lady Icarus is the first full-length biography of a remarkable Irish woman - and an absorbing tale of murder, romance and full throttled adventure.

"Lady Icarus: the Life of Irish Aviator Lady Mary Heath Lindie Naughton (Ashfield, €25). An outstanding, gracefully written, superbly designed book about a heavens-exploring, hell-raising Limerick gal, born Sophie Peirce Evans, who was a world record holding athlete before she defied gravity and conventions by her daring aviational adventures.

Lindie Naughton's painstaking research and fluent style has produced an enthralling book which will help you soar on wings above the post-turkey stodginess and help fill in some glaring gaps in our social and sporting history to boot."

- Decland McCormack, Irish Independent, Sports Books of the Year 2004