When a pair of aerobats take their exhilarating show to a nearby airfield, Marian's life is changed forever. Marian and Jamie grow up roaming Montana forests, more comfortable with landscape than with people. From the days of giant passenger ships sliding past Arctic icebergs, to the daring pilots of WWII, to present-day Hollywood and its malcontents, at the core of this story is the indomitable Marian Graves and her twin brother Jamie who are twice abandoned by their parents. Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for June 2022 Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 For fans of The Goldfinch, All the Light We Cannot See and The Girls: this monumentally powerful epic weaves together the astonishing lives of a daredevil female aviator and the Hollywood rebel who will play her on screen.
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