Full name: Circling the Sun: A Novel

Author: Paula McLain Year: 2015 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction Culture: Africa Purchase/reserch links: Amazon LibraryThing Goodreads ISBNs: 9780345534200 9780345534187 0345534204 0345534182

Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl Markham 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. Similar books: Love and Ruin by Paula McLain The Ashford Affair by Lauren Willig A Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna Raybourn The Other Hand by Chris Cleave Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Something of Value by Robert Ruark A Dry White Season by Andre Brink The Clouds Beneath the Sun by Mackenzie Ford Whitethorn by Bryce Courtenay The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M. G. Vassanji The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien The Salt Road by Jane Johnson The Darling by Russell Banks The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa Segu by Maryse Conde Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed Mother to Mother by Sindiwe Magona Empire of Sand by Robert Ryan The Lighted Rooms by Richard Mason