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Overview. Great Circle is a 2021 novel by Maggie Shipstead. The novel interweaves two timelines: One portrays the tragic life of a pioneering female aviator, Marian Graves, who attempts to fly over North and South Poles in the middle of the 20th century; the other follows an actor named Hadley Baxter, who attempts to make a film about Marian

Great Circle is the title of Maggie Shipstead's novel about Marian Graves, a woman who wants to be a pilot at a time when that's not something women do.One plot line revolves primarily around Marian's life, set in Prohibition-era Montana, where she flies liquor in from Canada, then Alaska, then in England as a flyer during World War Two.

Maggie Shipstead's Great Circle is a beautifully written, sprawling epic of a book about Marian Graves, a fictional female aviator who disappears in 1950 on the final leg of an attempted north-south circumnavigation of the earth. The opening pages make for a vertiginous reading experience because of the many characters, settings, and time