Great Circle
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Narrated by:
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Cassandra Campbell
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Alex McKenna
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By:
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Maggie Shipstead
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022
I was born to be a wanderer.
From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship, to the day she joins a pair of daredevil pilots looping and diving over the rugged forests of her childhood, to the thrill of flying Spitfires during the war, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust for freedom and danger.
In 1950, she embarks on her life's dream - to fly a Great Circle around the globe, pole to pole. But after a crash landing, she finds herself stranded on the Antarctic ice without enough fuel. With one fearsome piece of water separating her from completion of the Circle, she writes one last entry in her logbook.
She is ready for her final journey.
Half a century later, Hadley Baxter, a brilliant, troubled Hollywood starlet is irresistibly drawn to play Marian Graves, a role that will lead her to probe the deepest mysteries of the vanished pilot's life.
Great Circle is an enthralling journey over oceans and continents and a drama of exhilarating power. Combining unforgettable characters and thrilling suspense, it is a sweeping story of loss and obsession, sacrifice and survival, of the unknowable mysteries of freedom, love and life itself.
©2020 Maggie Shipstead (P)2020 Penguin AudioCritic reviews
"Ferociously clever." (Guardian)
"Joyously good." (Daily Mail)
"Impressive." (Jeffrey Eugenides)
The narrators capture the characters perfectly. And be prepared to want the world for both of them: Marian and Hadley
Fly. Fly to the horizon
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Brilliant
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Maggie Shipstead displays raw and unadulterated talent in this book. Every character, even if they are only present in one scene, is described vividly. Despite being 25 hours long, there are few if any wasted sentences.
The two narrators fit their storyline.
The story spans from the 1800s to current day. I was eager to hear how the two story lines would meet and merge. Shipstead did not disappoint.
Well written, well narrated.
Expansive novel with we written characters
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Such deeply drawn characters, they all felt so real and I was totally absorbed in their world.
Fantastic.
Hugely, hugely worth your time
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Brilliant Story!
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