With her imaginative piece of historic fiction Circling the Sun, author Paula McLain dives into the world of real-life heroine Beryl Markham, whose notoriety stretched far beyond her record as the first woman to guide an aircraft across the Atlantic, in 1936. While Beryl’s historic take-off and landing act as triumphant bookends, Circling the Sun is far more interested in the life and loves that came before her epoch-defining flight.
