{"product_id":"9780345534187","title":"Circling the Sun: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Wife,\u003c\/i\u003e now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. \u003ci\u003eCircling the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life a fearless and captivating woman—Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir \u003ci\u003eOut of Africa\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. Her unconventional upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman with a fierce love of all things wild and an inherent understanding of nature’s delicate balance. But even the wild child must grow up, and when everything Beryl knows and trusts dissolves, she is catapulted into a string of disastrous relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeryl forges her own path as a horse trainer, and her uncommon style attracts the eye of the Happy Valley set, a decadent, bohemian community of European expats who also live and love by their own set of rules. But it’s the ruggedly charismatic Denys Finch Hatton who ultimately helps Beryl navigate the uncharted territory of her own heart. The intensity of their love reveals Beryl’s truest self and her fate: to fly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the majestic landscape of early-twentieth-century Africa, McLain’s powerful tale reveals the extraordinary adventures of a woman before her time, the exhilaration of freedom and its cost, and the tenacity of the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdvance praise for \u003ci\u003eCircling the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Paula McLain has such a gift for bringing characters to life. I loved discovering the singular Beryl Markham, with all her strengths and passions and complexities, a woman who persistently broke the rules, despite the personal cost. She’s a rebel in her own time, and a heroine for ours.”\u003cb\u003e—Jojo Moyes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “McLain cements herself as \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e writer of historical fictional memoir with \u003ci\u003eCircling the Sun, \u003c\/i\u003egiving vivid voice to Beryl Markham. In a brilliant move, McLain hardly focuses at all on the transatlantic flight that made the aviator so famous, choosing instead to explore what happened before: Markham’s unorthodox childhood in Kenya, a failed marriage, and a star-crossed love affair with Denys Finch Hatton. In McLain’s confident hands, 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.”\u003cb\u003e—Jodi Picoult\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Paula McLain and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Wife\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“McLain has brought Hadley [Hemingway] to life in a novel that begins in a rush of early love. . . . A moving portrait of a woman slighted by history, a woman whose . . . story needed to be told.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Wife\u003c\/i\u003e creates the kind of out-of-body reading experience that dedicated book lovers yearn for, nearly as good as reading Hemingway for the first time—and it doesn’t get much better than that.”\u003cb\u003e—Minneapolis \u003ci\u003eStar Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Exquisitely evocative . . . This absorbing, illuminating book gives us an intimate view of a sympathetic and perceptive woman, the striving writer she married, the glittering and wounding Paris circle they were part of. . . . McLain reinvents the story of Hadley and Ernest’s romance with the lucid grace of a practiced poet.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A novel that’s impossible to resist . . . It’s all here, and it all feels real.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027651936496,"sku":"9780345534187","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780345534187_p0.jpg?v=1763688281","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780345534187","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}