Maggie Shipstead – Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead’s Great Circle is a biographical fiction novel following Marian and Jamie Graves who were rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914 and raised by their uncle. Marian begins her love affair with flight after meeting two pilots and at 14, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected wealthy bootlegger who becomes her patron, providing Marian with a plane and flying lessons. But it is an arrangement that will haunt her life forever. A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centres on her disappearance and immerses herself in the character as the two women’s fates collide.