The Scholarship Kids
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A RARE TRUE STORY OF GOOD FORTUNE
When two starry-eyed twins from the wrong side of the tracks see a Boeing 707 at Cape Town airport in the 1960s, it's love at first sight. There's just one problem – how on earth will they fulfil their dream of working in aviation one day? After all, this is still apartheid South Africa.
After a disastrous start to French at high school, the pair discover an unlikely aptitude for the language. It astounds their teachers, opens doors and paves the way for a scholarship from the French government.
They go to Paris to study aeronautical engineering, and a future full of possibility beckons. Cape Town seems a lifetime away.
Robert Gentle
Robert Gentle is a former aeronautical engineer, financial journalist and communications consultant. Besides writing books, he also dabbles in screenplays and still hopes to sell a script to Hollywood one day.
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