Marian Graves’ life is told in this story, from being rescued as a baby with her twin brother Jamie from a sinking ship in 1914. As a teenager, she discovers a love of flying and eventually begins a journey in a small plane to circumnavigate the globe longitudinally. Another strand of the story is in the present day, when young actress Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film about Marian’s disappearance in Antarctica. 

“Circles are wondrous because they are endless.”

BOOK SNAPS: ”Dense and intricate, this story is full of unforgettable characters.”

• Guardian: “Great Circle is peopled by vivid, memorable characters whose fates intersect in ways both inevitable and shocking; whose deaths, when they come, have the blunt, heartbreaking force of truth. The book takes its epigraph from Rilke: “I live my life in widening circles / that reach out across the world.” This is a novel that expands the reader’s horizons, and is moving and surprising at every turn.”
• Kirkus: ”Ingeniously structured and so damn entertaining; this novel is as ambitious as its heroines—but it never falls from the sky.”