- Booker Prize 2021 · Shortlist
Great Circle
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead (born 1983)
English editions
Written in EnglishGreat Circle
Penguin · United Kingdom · 26 May 2022 · Paperback · 688 pages
Great Circle
Knopf · United States · 4 May 2021 · Hardcover · 608 pages
Great Circle
Transworld · United Kingdom · 4 May 2021
Great Circle
Vintage · United States · 5 April 2022 · Paperback · 672 pages
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In 1914 the infant twins Marian and Jamie Graves are saved from a liner going down at sea and are raised by a dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. Stunt pilots touring the area set Marian on a lifelong passion for flight. At fourteen she leaves school and accepts the backing of a rich bootlegger, who pays for her plane and lessons, a bargain that will shadow her life. She flies Spitfires in the war, and in 1950 she sets out to circle the globe over both poles and disappears. Decades later Hadley Baxter, a scandal-hit actress who lost her own parents in an air crash, is cast as Marian, and the two women's stories run side by side.
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About the book
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- Novel
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- Historical (assigned by AI)
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- United States, United Kingdom
- First published
- 2021
- Author's age
- 38 when first published
- ISBN
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9780525656975 (Knopf, United States)
9781984897701 (Vintage, United States)
9781529176643 (Penguin, United Kingdom)
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