{"product_id":"great-circle-book-maggie-shipstead-9780593459416","title":"Great Circle","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER * A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK * The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost: an \"epic trip--through Prohibition and World War II, from Montana to London to present-day Hollywood--and you'll relish every minute\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two women's fates--and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times--collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, \u003ci\u003eGreat Circle\u003c\/i\u003e is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49591225811217,"sku":"GOR013729443","price":33.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49931095146769,"sku":"CIN0593459415A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53434645741841,"sku":"CIN0593459415G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0593459415.jpg?v=1751392602","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/great-circle-book-maggie-shipstead-9780593459416","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}