Circling the Sun

“Paula McLain cements herself as the writer of historical fictional memoir, giving vivid voice to Beryl Markham, a singular, extraordinary woman. Markham crackles to life, and we readers truly understand what made a woman so far ahead of her time believe she had the power to soar.”–Jodi Picoult Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Paris Wife, now transports readers to 1920s Kenya. Circling the Sun breathes life into a fearless and captivating young woman–Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator whose passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of Out of Africa, awakens Beryl to her truest self and her fate: to fly.