Great Circle

Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction

From her days as a wild child in prohibition America, to the blitz and glitz of wartime London, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust for freedom and danger. Having become one of the most fearless pilots in her time, in 1950 she sets out to do what no one has done before: circumnavigate the globe from pole to pole. But shortly before completing her journey, her plane disappears without a trace.

Over half a century later, troubled film star Hadley Baxter is offered the opportunity of a lifetime, playing Marian. It is a role that will lead her to probe the true mystery behind the vanished pilot.