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Circling the Sun

Circling the Sun 1

by Paula Mclain and Paula McLain
Paperback
Publication Date: 28/07/2015
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As a young girl, Beryl Markham was brought to Kenya from Britain by parents dreaming of a new life. For her mother, the dream quickly turned sour, and she returned home; Beryl was brought up by her father, allowing her first to run wild on their farm, then incarcerating her in the classroom. The scourge of governesses and serial absconder from boarding school, by the age of 16 Beryl had been catapulted into a disastrous marriage. Scandalizing high society with her errant behaviour, she left her husband and became the first woman to hold a professional racehorse trainer's licence. After falling in with the hedonistic and gin-soaked Happy Valley set, Beryl soon became embroiled in a love triangle with the writer Karen Blixen and big game-hunter Denys Finch Hatton. It was this unhappy affair which set tragedy in motion, while awakening Beryl to her truest self, and to her fate: to fly.
ISBN:
9781844088294
9781844088294
Category:
Uncategorized
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
28-07-2015
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
234x157x28mm
Weight:
0.63kg
Paula McLain

Paula McLain received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan and has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

She is the author of two collections of poetry, as well as a memoir, Like Family. Her novels include The Paris Wife and Circling the Sun. She lives in Cleveland with her family.

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From the author of The Paris Wife is this sweeping story of the life of Beryl Markham who was a woman before her time. The novel is based mainly in colonial Kenya in the 1920s and tells the story of Beryl who was an independant woman who refused to be molded to society norm and persisted in following her drive to become a woman with a career. The sense of time and place is exemplary in this thoroughly captivating novel.

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