
Great Circle
Booker Prize · 2021 · ShortlistWomen's Prize for Fiction · 2021 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize | 2021 | Shortlist |
| Women's Prize for Fiction | 2021 | Shortlist |
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 ShipsteadAmerican
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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