An unsuccessful attempt to bring a vivid story to life
Sadly, unlike its heroine, Circling The Sun never really takes off
Fiction: Circling The Sun
By Paula McLain
Virago, €20
Reviewed by Anna Carey
More than 70 years ago, Ernest Hemingway wrote a letter to his editor Maxwell Perkins in which he said: “Did you read Beryl Markham’s book? . . . She has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself ...