Marian Graves was “born to be a wanderer” always restless, always searching for purpose.Īfter being rescued as a baby from a sinking ship with her twin brother, she is placed in the care of her artist Uncle in country Montana. It takes the reader over oceans and continents, between the past and modern day, and on a journey through the ups and downs of life. Great Circle is a compelling and immersive adventure. We’ll talk with Maggie about the power of seeing the world, and what she sees in the world-and we know you’ll come away being as glad as we are that she’s writing what she’s writing.Reviewer: Peta Browne, Bundaberg Regional Libraries The Great Circle is a book that has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021, and is a strong recommendation from Bundaberg Library's Peta Browne. Through her life and her stories, Shipstead has learned very well that travel can be an adventure that pushes you, expands you, electrifies you. Unlike her literally high-flying heroine, Maggie herself is very down-to-earth, but like her she is wildly talented. In that, Great Circle is consistently, often breathtakingly, sound.” Not bad for a review, right? But it’s at the level of the sentence and the scene, the small but unforgettable salient detail, that books finally succeed or fail. One might say it soars….Here we have an action-packed book rich with character. One review, in the New York Times, said “ Great Circle starts high and maintains altitude. It’s the tale of two women, a century apart, one a daredevil aviatrix who travels the globe and the other an actress who portrays her much later. Her latest novel, her third, came out this past spring, and it’s called Great Circle. In a relatively short time, she’s had major success, both literary and commercial, in both nonfiction - for travel stories in publications including Travel & Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler, the Atlantic, and the New York Times - and in fiction.
Our guest today, Maggie Shipstead, is both a travel writer’s travel writer and a writer’s writer.
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