With the fictional Marian Graves, Maggie Shipstead creates a compelling, original heroine all her own. By that time she was, as the reader will learn, an accomplished aviator, a woman obsessed with flight since her girlhood in the wilds of Montana. Yet Great Circle is more than a historical novel, and the book has more than one heroine. Shipstead deftly interweaves Marian and Hadley’s lives and draws striking parallels between their experiences, despite the time and circumstances separating them. The plot of Great Circle is intricate and rich, humming like the Merlin engine of the Spitfire Marian will eventually fly.

Source: The Guardian May 26, 2021 06:22 UTC