PAULA MCLAIN

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning ambition to write After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for France...

Hadley Richardson vivía en el Chicago de 1920 una existencia sin privaciones, pero alejada del amor y la felicidad. Hasta que conoció a Ernest Hemingway. Quedó cautivada por la energía y ambiciones que derrochaba. Su vida cambio para siempre. Despues de un breve noviazgo, se convirtio en su primera esposa. Se trasladaron a Paris, en donde fueron muy pobres, pero muy felices frecuentando el circulo de artistas formado por Francis Scott y Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound Aquella generacion perdida que habia encontrado refugio en Paris. Aunque profundamente enamorados, la pareja no estaba preparada para soportar el ambiente de aquel Paris alocado y lleno de glamour que queria olvidar los desastres de la Gran Guerra. Las fiestas continuas en aquella era del jazz, los excesos del alcohol, las tertulias ingeniosas, no eran lo mas adecuado para la fidelidad y la vida familiar. Siempre rodeado de atractivas mujeres y egos artisticos rivales, Ernest luchaba y empezaba a encontrar la voz que le dio un lugar privilegiado en la historia de las letras. Pero todo fue a costa de sacrificar su relacion con Hadley y el hijo de ambos. El rol de Hadley como esposa, amiga y musa estaba en peligro.

Hadley Richardson vivía en el Chicago de 1920 una existencia sin privaciones, pero alejada del amor y de la felicidad. Hasta que conoció a Ernest Hemingway, con su personalidad y su energía arrolladoras, y su vida cambio para siempre. Despues de un breve noviazgo, se convirtio en su primera esposa y se trasladaron a Paris, donde fueron muy pobres y muy felices. "Mrs. Hemingway" en Paris es una historia de amores y traiciones de dos seres inolvidables. Pero tambien es un fresco de una epoca fascinante en la que la capital de Francia fue escenario de uno de los momentos mas alegres, ricos y creativos del siglo XX.Hadley Richardson vivía en el Chicago de 1920 una existencia sin privaciones, pero alejada del amor y de la felicidad. Hasta que conoció a Ernest Hemingway, con su personalidad y su energía arrolladoras, y su vida cambio para siempre. Despues de un breve noviazgo, se convirtio en su primera esposa y se trasladaron a Paris, donde fueron muy pobres y muy felices. "Mrs. Hemingway" en Paris es una historia de amores y traiciones de dos seres inolvidables. Pero tambien es un fresco de una epoca fascinante en la que la capital de Francia fue escenario de uno de los momentos mas alegres, ricos y creativos del siglo XX.

As a young girl, Beryl Markham was brought to Kenya from Britain by parents dreaming of a new life. For her mother, the dream quickly turned sour, and she returned home; Beryl was brought up by her father, who switched between indulgence and heavy-handed authority, allowing her first to run wild on their farm, then incarcerating her in the classroom. The scourge of governesses and serial absconder from boarding school, by the age of sixteen Beryl had been catapulted into a disastrous marriage - but it was in facing up to this reality that she took charge of her own destiny.Scandalizing high society with her errant behaviour, she left her husband and became the first woman ever to hold a professional racehorse trainer''s licence. After falling in with the notoriously hedonistic and gin-soaked Happy Valley set, Beryl soon became embroiled in a complex love triangle with the writer Karen Blixen and big game-hunter Denys Finch Hatton (immortalized in Blixen''s memoir Out of Africa). It was this unhappy affair which set tragedy in motion, while awakening Beryl to her truest self, and to her fate: to fly.

The author of The Paris Wife takes us to the heart of another true story: set in 1920s colonial Kenya, Circling the Sun is about an unforgettable woman who lives by nobody''s rules but her own.As a young girl, Beryl Markham was brought to Kenya from Britain by parents dreaming of a new life. For her mother, the dream quickly turned sour, and she returned home; Beryl was brought up by her father, who switched between indulgence and heavy-handed authority, allowing her first to run wild on their farm, then incarcerating her in the classroom. The scourge of governesses and serial absconder from boarding school, by the age of sixteen Beryl had been catapulted into a disastrous marriage - but it was in facing up to this reality that she took charge of her own destiny.Scandalizing high society with her errant behaviour, she left her husband and became the first woman ever to hold a professional racehorse trainer''s licence. After falling in with the notoriously hedonistic and gin-soaked Happy Valley set, Beryl soon became embroiled in a complex love triangle with the writer Karen Blixen and big game-hunter Denys Finch Hatton (immortalized in Blixen''s memoir Out of Africa). It was this unhappy affair which set tragedy in motion, while awakening Beryl to her truest self, and to her fate: to fly.

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Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating womanBeryl 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. Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. Her unconventional upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman with a fierce love of all things wild and an inherent understanding of natures delicate balance. But even the wild child must grow up, and when everything Beryl knows and trusts dissolves, she is catapulted into a string of disastrous relationships. 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 its the ruggedly charismatic Denys Finch Hatton who ultimately helps Beryl navigate the uncharted territory of her own heart. The intensity of their love reveals Beryls truest self and her fate: to fly. Set against the majestic landscape of early-twentieth-century Africa, McLains powerful tale reveals the extraordinary adventures of a woman before her time, the exhilaration of freedom and its cost, and the tenacity of the human spirit.

Chicago, octobre 1920. Hadley Richardson a 28 ans et débarque du Missouri lorsqu’elle fait la connaissance d’un jeune homme de 20 ans, revenu blessé de la Grande Guerre, Ernest Hemingway. Après un ma