NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR BOOKPAGE AND SHELF
AWARENESS • Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction and for good reason.
Fans of The Paris Wife will be captivated by Circling the Sun which . . . is both beautifully
written and utterly engrossing.-Ann Patchett Country Living This powerful novel transports
readers to the breathtaking world of Out of Africa-1920s Kenya-and reveals the extraordinary
adventures of Beryl Markham a woman before her time. Brought to Kenya from England by
pioneering parents dreaming of a new life on an African farm Beryl is raised unconventionally
developing a fierce will and a love of all things wild. But after everything she knows and
trusts dissolves headstrong young Beryl is flung into a string of disastrous relationships
then becomes caught up in a passionate love triangle with the irresistible safari hunter Denys
Finch Hatton and the writer Baroness Karen Blixen. Brave and audacious and contradictory Beryl
will risk everything to have Denys's love but it's ultimately her own heart she must conquer
to embrace her true calling and her destiny: to fly. Praise for Circling the Sun In McLain's
confident hands Beryl 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 author of
Leaving Time Enchanting . . . a worthy heir to [Isak] Dinesen . . . Like Africa as it's so
gorgeously depicted here this novel will never let you go.-The Boston Globe Famed aviator
Beryl Markham is a novelist's dream. . . . [A] wonderful portrait of a complex woman who
lived-defiantly-on her own terms.-People (Book of the Week) Circling the Sun soars.-Newsday
Captivating . . . [an] irresistible novel.-The Seattle Times Like its high-flying subject
Circling the Sun is audacious and glamorous and hard not to be drawn in by. Beryl Markham may
have married more than once but she was nobody's wife.-Entertainment Weekly [An] eloquent
evocation of Beryl's daring life.-O: The Oprah Magazine
