GREAT CIRCLE
At more than 600 pages, Great Circle does indeed boast an impressive girth.
The narrative is split between Marian Graves, who disappeared in 1950 while trying to fly the globe, and Hollywood star Hadley Baxter, who in 2010s LA has just sent her career spiralling with an intentionally scandalous hook-up.
When Hadley is offered the role of the daring aviatrix in a forthcoming film, she immediately notices the parallels: both were orphaned and raised by their uncles. As women navigating courses through men’s worlds, however, the similarities go beyond the superficial.
This is a sweepingly panoramic novel with equally expansive themes courage, independence, love, art whose backdrop is the history of aviation itself.
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