MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels SEATING ARRANGEMENTS - winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and L A Times Book Prize for First Fiction - ASTONISH ME and the Booker-shortlisted GREAT CIRCLE. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Conde Nast Traveller, The Best American Short Stories and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. YOU HAVE A FRIEND IN 10A is her first story collection. Maggie Shipstead grew up in California and lives in Los Angeles, California.
Luminous, masterful ... glides seamlessly through the 20th century
immersing the reader. Tremendously well-written
*TELEGRAPH, 'Best Fiction of 2021'*
A gripping historical adventure that feels sharp, fresh and
modern
*STYLIST MAGAZINE*
Shipstead turns phrases and observes people beautifully. Full of
adventure, passion and tragedy... a glorious tribute to women who
push the boundaries of their one, brief life, breaking the bonds of
their place in history and their female bodies, to soar higher and
faster than others; and the price they pay to live so fast
*THE TIMES, 'Best Fiction of 2021'*
Impressive and gripping
*SUNDAY TIMES*
What's so impressive is how deeply we care about each of these
people, and how the shape and texture of each of their stories
collide to build a story all its own. GREAT CIRCLE grasps for and
ultimately reaches something extraordinary
*NEW YORK TIMES*
The Marian portions rove from Montana to Manhattan to Scotland and
Antarctica, and read like a carnival of early-20th-century American
history, packed with bootleggers, treacherous boxcar rides, and
tragic shipwrecks. The Hadley chapters offer a delectable
dissection of life as a celebrity, serving up an intelligent
skewering of the Hollywood machine and allowing the book to take
flight
*VOGUE*
GREAT CIRCLE is a novel of our insatiable need to stare down the
terrible, magnificent vastness of it all: love, war, desire, fear
... A sweeping, swashbuckling book, full of oversaturated colour
and grand destiny. The joy of this dynamic, soaring novel is not a
welcome extra but its very engine
*TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT*
Encompasses flight, travel adventure, identity, sexuality, family,
the celebrity age - and in such beautiful writing. A
masterpiece.
*NIGELLA LAWSON*
Rocked by the cool cadences of Shipstead's prose, readers will
embark on a journey through time and space. Across 600 pages,
they'll link arms with its characters as they stroll along the
decks of early-1900s ocean liners, then board private jets to
eavesdrop on the poolside parties of 21st-century Hollywood.
They'll spot eagles arcing over the wild frontiers of
Prohibition-era America then feel the lonely, existential chill of
the white expanses of Antarctica - in between city breaks in Europe
and Australia
*INDEPENDENT*
This wonderful novel weaves together the story of two women: a
female aviator who goes missing in the1950s and the Hollywood star
playing her in a film in the present day. A commitment that rewards
with memorable characters and vivid storytelling
*GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, 'Best Fiction of 2021'*
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