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Paula mclain books list of books by author paula mclain. Circling the sun is one of those thrilling books that engages all your senses and makes you feel like youre right in the middle of the action. A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, the paris wife captures a remarkable period of timeparis in the twentiesand an extraordinary love affair between two unforgettable people. Mclains book is not short on plot but then neither was markhams life. Everything you need to understand or teach circling the sun by paula mclain. In circling the sun paula mclain transports us back to 1920s colonial kenya with her telling of recordsetting aviator and racehorse trainer beryl markhams extraordinary life. Beryl broke all the rules for a proper young lady as she grew up in colonial kenya, then broke ground for women everywhere, first as a horse trainer and then as an aviator. In a brilliant move, mclain hardly focuses at all on the transatlantic flight that made the aviator so famous, choosing instead.
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