Paula McLain
When the Stars Go Dark

When the Stars Go Dark

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People says this is a "total departure for the author of The Paris Wife,, McLain’s emotionally intense and exceptionally well-written thriller entwines its fictional crime with real cases."

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The Paris Wife

The Paris Wife

This is the fictionalized account of Hemingway’s first marriage to Hadley Richardson. The setting—mostly Jazz-Age Paris—is dreamy; the marriage, less so. We all know how this ends: badly. And yet, towards the end of his life Hemingway said, “I wished I had died before I loved anyone but her.” Book club highlight: Hemingway, that dirty dog.

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Circling the Sun: A Novel

Circling the Sun: A Novel

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Ann Patchett calls Paula McLain "the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason. Fans of The Paris Wife will be captivated by Circling the Sun, which . . . is both beautifully written and utterly engrossing." From the publisher: "Transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman—Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, who as Isak Dinesen wrote the classic memoir Out of Africa. Beryl forges her own path as a horse trainer, and her uncommon style attracts the eye of the Happy Valley set, a decadent, bohemian community of European expats who also live and love by their own set of rules. But it’s the ruggedly charismatic Denys Finch Hatton who ultimately helps Beryl navigate the uncharted territory of her own heart. The intensity of their love reveals Beryl’s truest self and her fate: to fly."

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Love and Ruin

Love and Ruin

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Ann Patchett proclaims McLain "the new star of historical fiction." Amazon picked this as a best book in May stating, "Paula McLain said she was done writing about Ernest Hemingway after she finished her bestselling novel, The Paris Wife, but he crept back into her consciousness and six years later is Love and Ruin, an exceptional novel about Ernest Hemingway and his third wife, Martha Gellhorn. Love and Ruin is the story of a driven and fearless young woman who became a force to be reckoned with in her own right. Love and Ruin is a love story, the making of a trail-blazing woman, and most of all a spellbinding work of historical fiction." People magazine says, "In this follow-up [to The Paris Wife], we meet Martha Gellhorn, a correspondent during the Spanish Civil War, who was the third—and perhaps most intriguing—of [Hemingway's] wives. The title says it all."

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