Shortlisted for both the Women’s Fiction Prize (2022) and the Booker (2021), this stirring novel pulls together the lives of a fictional female aviator in the 1950s aiming to circumnavigate the earth from pole to pole, and the modern actress playing her in a Hollywood movie. Bristling with derring-do (for instance a crash landing in Antarctica), it is also a powerful character study, written with the flair and assurance one comes to expect from both protagonists. (Also available in paperback).