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Yet, Circling the Sun is all about white colonialists and their self-enclosed world on their plantations in the East African Protectorate, where the natives are hardly more than an exotic backdrop for the adventures and love affairs of a British floozy. As somebody who considers Proust a page-turner, I cannot fault a book for portraying a ...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, BOOKPAGE, AND SHELF AWARENESS • “Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason.
Circling the Sun. By Paula McLain. Purchase. As she approached old age in the 1980s, the author, aviator and adventurer Beryl Markham had been largely forgotten. Her 1942 book detailing a...
Rumors fly about another possible affair, with Prince Harry, the third son of King George V, before she finally takes up flying airplanes back in Kenya. Meantime, through it all, she pines for ...
Circling the Sun: A Novel Kindle Edition. by Paula McLain (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.3 26,021 ratings. Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction. See all formats and editions. “Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason.
About Circling the Sun. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, BOOKPAGE, AND SHELF AWARENESS • “Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason.
This much anticipated novel from the author of The Paris Wife is exactly that: an engrossing story of love and adventure in colonial Africa, complete with gorgeous landscape, dissolute British ex-pats, and lots of derring-do with horses, motorcars and airplanes.