Great Circle: The dazzling new novel for fans of The Goldfinch: The soaring and emotional novel, Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2022

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A breath-takingly powerful epic that weaves together the astonishing lives of a 1950s vanished female aviator and the rebel-hearted Hollywood millennial who plays her on screen. A stand-out American literary work in the same league as THE GOLDFINCH and ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE ‘Smart, ambitious and so beautifully written. An amazing literary feat’ CURTIS SITTENFELD ‘Epic in spirit and scope. A soaring masterclass’ TELEGRAPH (five stars) _______________________ I WAS BORN TO BE A WANDERER From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship; to the day she joins a pair of daredevil pilots looping and diving over the rugged forests of her childhood, to the thrill of flying Spitfires during the war, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust for freedom and danger. In 1950, she embarks on the great circle flight, circumnavigating the globe. It is Marian’s life dream and her final journey, before she disappears without a trace. Half a century later, Hadley Baxter, a brilliant, troubled Hollywood starlet is irresistibly drawn to play Marian Graves, a role that will lead her to probe the deepest mysteries of the vanished pilot’s life. An enthralling journey over oceans and continents and a drama of exhilarating power, GREAT CIRCLE is perfect for book clubs and fans of William Boyd and Donna Tartt. _________________________________________ ‘Gripping’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘ Shipstead is a writer who can vividly summon whatever she chooses, taking the reader deep inside the world she creates’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘ Extraordinary’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘One of the most hotly anticipated books of the spring’ MARIELLA FROSTRUP . —- ISBN: 9780857526809