Great Circle: A novel

Synopsis

Relentlessly Exciting . . . My Top Recommendation For This Summer. --ron Charles, The Washington Post Instant New York Times Best Seller - A Today Show #readwithjenna Book Club Pick - The Unforgettable Story Of A Daredevil Female Aviator Determined To Chart Her Own Course In Life, At Any Cost--great Circle Soars And Dips With Dizzying Flair ... An Expansive Story That Covers More Than A Century And Seems To Encapsulate The Whole Wide World (boston Globe). A Masterpiece . . . One Of The Best Books I've Ever Read. --j. Courtney Sullivan After Being Rescued As Infants From A Sinking Ocean Liner In 1914, Marian And Jamie Graves Are Raised By Their Dissolute Uncle In Missoula, Montana. There--after Encountering A Pair Of Barnstorming Pilots Passing Through Town In Beat-up Biplanes--marian Commences Her Lifelong Love Affair With Flight. At Fourteen She Drops Out Of School And Finds An Unexpected And Dangerous Patron In A Wealthy Bootlegger Who Provides A Plane And Subsidizes Her Lessons, An Arrangement That Will Haunt Her For The Rest Of Her Life, Even As It Allows Her To Fulfill Her Destiny: Circumnavigating The Globe By Flying Over The North And South Poles. A Century Later, Hadley Baxter Is Cast To Play Marian In A Film That Centers On Marian's Disappearance In Antarctica. Vibrant, Canny, Disgusted With The Claustrophobia Of Hollywood, Hadley Is Eager To Redefine Herself After A Romantic Film Franchise Has Imprisoned Her In The Grip Of Cult Celebrity. Her Immersion Into The Character Of Marian Unfolds, Thrillingly, Alongside Marian's Own Story, As The Two Women's Fates--and Their Hunger For Self-determination In Vastly Different Geographies And Times--collide. Epic And Emotional, Meticulously Researched And Gloriously Told, Great Circle Is A Monumental Work Of Art, And A Tremendous Leap Forward For The Prodigiously Gifted Maggie Shipstead.