Circling the Sun [Paperback] McLain, Paula

Kenya in the 1920s. Beryl Markham grows up wild — raised by her father on a failing horse farm, riding bareback, learning to track game with the Kipsigis, living more feral than refined. As an adult, she becomes one of the colony's most gifted horse trainers, tangled in a love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and writer Karen Blixen (yes, *that* Karen Blixen). But Beryl's real obsession is flight. Paula McLain gives us a woman who refused every constraint of her era — societal, romantic, gravitational. The prose is lean and vivid, the colonial setting rendered without romanticizing its uglier truths. For readers who loved *Out of Africa* but wanted the story from the other woman's perspective, or anyone drawn to historical figures who lived entirely on their own terms.