![]() ![]() ![]() In 2015, Hadley Baxter, former child star and poster girl of the blockbuster Archangel franchise, has just been fired for cheating on her on-screen boyfriend. Shortly before completing the journey, her plane disappears, lost to history. She becomes one of the most fearless pilots of her time, and in 1949 she sets out to do what no one has done before: fly the Great Circle around the earth, north to south around the poles. As she grows into a woman, she sacrifices everything to command the breathtaking sense of freedom, of utter control over her own fate, that she feels when in the air. Watching them roll, dive, and loop in their mini plane, she can think of nothing else but flying. When a pair of aerobats take their exhilarating show to a nearby airfield, Marian's life is changed forever. ![]() Marian and Jamie grow up roaming Montana forests, more comfortable with landscape than with people. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022įor fans of The Goldfinch, All the Light We Cannot See and The Girls: this monumentally powerful epic weaves together the astonishing lives of a daredevil female aviator and the Hollywood rebel who will play her on screen.įrom the days of giant passenger ships sliding past Arctic icebergs, to the daring pilots of WWII, to present-day Hollywood and its malcontents, at the core of this story is the indomitable Marian Graves and her twin brother Jamie who are twice abandoned by their parents. ![]() Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for June 2022 ![]()
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