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Great Circle

by Maggie Shipstead

Booker Prize · 2021 · ShortlistWomen's Prize for Fiction · 2021 · Shortlist
Knopfhistorical-fictionISBN 9780525658184

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Booker Prize2021Shortlist
Women's Prize for Fiction2021Shortlist

About This Book

In 1950, pioneering aviator Marian Graves disappears over Antarctica attempting to fly a great circle route around the earth. Decades later, a young Hollywood actress is cast to play Marian in a biopic and becomes obsessed with the mystery of her disappearance. A sweeping, ambitious novel that spans a century and multiple continents.

About the Author

Maggie Shipstead is an American novelist born in Orange County, California, in 1983. She graduated from Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her debut novel Seating Arrangements (2012) won the Dylan Thomas Prize. Read more →

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