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A review by daja57
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
5.0
Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction
Two interleaved narratives tell the birth-to-death bildungsroman of Marian Graves (and her twin brother Jamie, and her childhood friend Caleb Bitterroot), a young American girl who loved flying and disappeared on an attempt to fly around the world, over the two poles, in 1950, and the current story of the wild child actress who plays her in the biopic. It's a big book, full of incident and humour and packed with details that create such a sense of authenticity that I googled Marian to see if she was a real person.
I was captivated by the story of Marian and her brother and Caleb; when they were in peril, my heart was in my mouth. I was enthralled by them. And the counterpoint story brought humour and lightness to the book.
Enormously readable and great fun.
Two interleaved narratives tell the birth-to-death bildungsroman of Marian Graves (and her twin brother Jamie, and her childhood friend Caleb Bitterroot), a young American girl who loved flying and disappeared on an attempt to fly around the world, over the two poles, in 1950, and the current story of the wild child actress who plays her in the biopic. It's a big book, full of incident and humour and packed with details that create such a sense of authenticity that I googled Marian to see if she was a real person.
I was captivated by the story of Marian and her brother and Caleb; when they were in peril, my heart was in my mouth. I was enthralled by them. And the counterpoint story brought humour and lightness to the book.
Enormously readable and great fun.