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. Great Circle study guide contains a biography of Maggie Shipstead, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Over half a century later, troubled film star Hadley Baxter is drawn inexorably to play the enigmatic pilot on screen. The Great Circle Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list.

Now, as she is about to fulfil her greatest ambition, to circumnavigate the globe from pole to pole, Marian crash lands in a perilous wilderness of ice. But it is an obsession with flight that consumes her most. Memorable characters and vivid storytelling'Ī 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.įrom her days as a wild child in prohibition America to the blitz and glitz of wartime London, from the rugged shores of New Zealand to a lonely iceshelf in Antarctica, Marian Graves is driven by a need for freedom and danger.ĭetermined to live an independent life, she resists the pull of her childhood sweetheart, and burns her way through a suite of glamorous lovers. 'How deeply we care about each of these people. Glides seamlessly through the 20th century, immersing the reader' 'A gripping historical adventure that feels sharp, fresh and modern' But then, of course, I think as with expeditioners, the question arises of now what? You know, the center of my life was suddenly gone and facing the blank page again for the first time in seven years was not easy.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE BOOKER PRIZE And so I certainly felt a sense of relief at the end. I definitely was depleted by this book by the time I was done, I took pretty much everything I was preoccupied with and thinking about during this time, I did a lot of travel, both coincidentally and for the purposes of seeing this place, it was really important to me to see Antarctica, it was important to me to see the Arctic.

On finishing the novel, compared to finishing something like an Antarctic expedition I've seen the edge of it, although the piece of ice where Little America was has long since broken off and floated away and returned to the ocean. It was a little confusing because Little America existed in multiple iterations.

I read his accounts of his expeditions and what I could find by other members of them. actually built on the the Ross Ice Shelf, floating ice shelf.

So this was one of Richard Byrd's expedition bases. Book Reviews With 'Arrangements' And 'The Rest,' Two Debut Novelists Arrive

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