Bestselling author Paula McLain returns to the spotlight with another eagerly awaited novel. The scene opens in colonial Kenya during the 1920s with a fearless and captivating young woman named Beryl Markham 鈥� a record-setting aviator tangled up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir "Out of Africa." Readers may not enjoy this one quite as much as "The Paris Wife" (McLain's 2011 novel about Ernest Hemingway's first wife Hadley Richardson). The breathless quality of the narration occasionally wears thin and reality takes a backseat to romance a bit too often, yet this remains a transporting summer read. You can read the Monitor's full review of "Circling the Sun" here.
