Maggie Shipstead

Full stop.

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead.

Just unbeatable.

Just an absolute epic if you are looking for an incredibly genius escapist.

You want to give women the voice that you're over here just nodding your head and you're like, I want to pretend that I can be the kind of person to speak out like this main character.

You know, I love The Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead so much.

It's one of my favorites, I think.

You know, Maggie is just such a brilliant writer, and it's also yet another story of the kind of women that we do not see nearly enough on the page.

Then to a waiting world came news of disaster as the plane failed to reach tiny Howland Island in the Pacific.

Well, Maggie, Maggie Shipstead is the author of the novel Great Circle about a vanished female aviator, and she's been telling the BBC's Justin Webb how likely it might be that this new expedition will find out what really happened to Amelia Earhart.

My strong opinion is that it's overwhelmingly likely that she ran out of fuel, crashed into the ocean, and the airplane sank.

Um, so I don't think they're going to find anything at, um, Nikumaroro.

She survived.

There's this chapter we don't know about." And sort of becomes, uh, she becomes less of a person and more of a legend, I think.

And that was Maggie Shipstead there speaking to the BBC's Justin Webb on the mystery of what happened to aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart there.

Still raising lots of questions decades on.

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Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead.

Okay.

New in hardbuck, hardbuck, hardback.

Hannah recognizes that the power of the story lies in the voice, not just the sequence of events.

Okay, so if Elisabeth Zott fights a war to claim space inside a confined domestic sphere, Maggie Shipstead asks the exact inverse question in our next book.

Oh, this transition is perfect.

Right.