![]() ![]() Within two years, Beryl’s mother flees for home, leaving the little girl with her father, a racehorse trainer. It’s 1904, and the Clutterbuck family has arrived in Africa from England to farm. ![]() But just as the engine begins to sputter, we shift back in time …to Beryl’s childhood in Kenya. Markham is piloting her Vera Gull over the ocean, and she’s in trouble. Now Markham gets her moment in the sun, starring in Paula McLain’s latest work of historical fiction.Īnd what a character Markham was in real life: a magnet for scandal, married and divorced multiple times, an independent woman who trained horses and then set records with a 1936 solo Atlantic crossing in her “aeroplane.” Like Dinesen with Out of Africa, Markham wrote an autobiography, West With the Night.Ĭircling the Sun takes off with great promise in a gripping first chapter. ![]() ![]() It turns out there was a third party to their 1920s love affair - aviator Beryl Markham, who was just as mad about the elusive Finch Hatton as was her unhappily married friend Blixen. It’s been 30 years since the wonderful Oscar-winning film Out of Africa roared onto movie screens, starring a luminous Meryl Streep as memoirist Karen Blixen (pen name Isak Dinesen) and a rugged Robert Redford as her romantic prey, big-game hunter Denys Finch Hatton. ![]()
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