Great Circle

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<p><b>THE EPIC AND EMOTIONAL<i> NEW YORK TIMES </i>AND <i>TIMES </i>BESTSELLER<br><br>Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction<br>Shortlisted for the Booker Prize<br>Amazon Book of the Year<br>Time Magazine Book of the Year<br>Waterstones fiction Book of the Month</b><br>______________<br><br><b>'A GRIPPING HISTORICAL ADVENTURE' </b><i>STYLIST</i><br><br><b>'SO BEAUTIFUL, SO DARING, SO COMPLETE' </b>TAYLOR JENKINS REID, author of <i>Carrie Soto is Back</i><br><br><b>'A MASTERPIECE' </b>NIGELLA LAWSON<br><br><b>EXTRAORDINARY'</b> <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i><br><br><b>'ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITE NOVELS' </b>READER REVIEW *****<br>_______________________<br><br><b>A soaring, breathtakingly ambitious novel that weaves together the astonishing lives of a 1950s vanished female aviator and the modern-day Hollywood actress who plays her on screen.</b><br><br>Marian Graves is driven by a need for freedom and danger. From her days as a wild child in prohibition America to the blitz and glitz of wartime London, she is determined to live an independent life.<br><br>But it is an obsession with flight that consumes her most.<br><br>Having become one of the most fearless pilots in her time, she sets out to do what no one has done before: to circumnavigate the globe from pole to pole.<br><br>But shortly before completing the journey, her plane disappears, lost to history.<br><br>Over half a century later, troubled film star Hadley Baxter is offered to play Marian in the comeback role of a lifetime. From the first pages of the script, Hadley is drawn inexorably to the female pilot.<br><br>It is a role that will lead her to an unexpected discovery, throwing fresh and spellbinding light on the story of the unknowable Marian Graves.<br><br>_______________________<br><br><b>WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH JUNE 2022<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021<br>A ROYAL READING ROOM PICK 2023<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781529176643

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 128 x 32 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Transworld Publ. Ltd UK