Circling the Sun -
By Paula McLain

Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun
brings to life a fearless and captivating woman Beryl Markham, a
record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with
safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, who as Isak Dinesen
wrote the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from
England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised by
both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. Her
unconventional upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman with
a fierce love of all things wild and an inherent understanding of
nature s delicate balance. But even the wild child must grow up, and
when everything Beryl knows and trusts dissolves, she is catapulted into
a string of disastrous relationships. Beryl forges her own path as a
horse trainer, and her uncommon style attracts the eye of the Happy
Valley set, a decadent, bohemian community of European expats who also
live and love by their own set of rules. But it s the ruggedly
charismatic Denys Finch Hatton who ultimately helps Beryl navigate the
uncharted territory of her own heart. The intensity of their love
reveals Beryl s truest self and her fate: to fly. Set against the
majestic landscape of early-twentieth-century Africa, McLain s powerful
tale reveals the extraordinary adventures of a woman before her time,
the exhilaration of freedom and its cost, and the tenacity of the human
spirit.