Great Circle

THE EPIC AND EMOTIONAL NEW YORK TIMES AND TIMES BESTSELLER

Shortlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Amazon Book of the Year
Time Magazine Book of the Year
Waterstones fiction Book of the Month
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A GRIPPING HISTORICAL ADVENTURESTYLIST

SO BEAUTIFUL, SO DARING, SO COMPLETETAYLOR JENKINS REID, author of Carrie Soto is Back

A MASTERPIECENIGELLA LAWSON

EXTRAORDINARYNEW YORK TIMES

ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITE NOVELSREADER REVIEW *****
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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.

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.

But it is an obsession with flight that consumes her most.

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.

But shortly before completing the journey, her plane disappears, lost to history.

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.

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.

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WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH JUNE 2022
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021
A ROYAL READING ROOM PICK 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN 2022
TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER MAY 2021
TIMES BESTSELLER JUNE 2022
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Full of adventure, passion and tragedyTHE TIMES

Soars from the very first pageSUNDAY EXPRESS

Luminous, masterful. Glides seamlessly through the 20th centuryTELEGRAPH, Best Fiction of 2021

BreathtakingOBSERVER

Truly exceptional storytelling, combining a sweeping arc of history with writing that, at sentence level, is near-flawless.THE BOOKSELLER

A tour-de-forceDAILY EXPRESS

Impressive and grippingSUNDAY TIMES

Surprising and moving at every turnGUARDIAN

Audacious and ImmersiveDAILY MAIL

Accomplished and ambitiousFINANCIAL TIMES

Readers love GREAT CIRCLE:
***** What a read! Immense story with beautifully created characters
***** The story is so well researched and planned; historical fiction standing side by side with history itself
***** This is a stunning achievement, my perspective feels fundamentally transformed through reading it
***** A wonderful saga, covering a large chunk of the twentieth century