He lunges into the lifeboat and seals his fate, a captain who abandoned his ship! Later, Addison is sentenced to Sing Sing, where he is imprisoned for over nine years. As he looks at the panicked passengers, he realizes that he cannot entrust his flesh and blood to them. He rushes to Lifeboat 12 and fires his pistol into the air, planning to pass the twins to someone in the lifeboat. He acts without hesitation to save the twins. The twins are alone in their bassinettes with Annabel nowhere in sight. He rushes to his stateroom to find his twins and their mother. On the voyage, six weeks later, there is an explosion on the ship, and Addison strives to save his passengers and crew. The Josephina Eterna, cursed at launching by an unbroken christening bottle, is his ship. Addison, a ship’s captain, decides Annabel needs to travel and a sea voyage is in order. Annabel, probably suffering from post-partum depression, has no interest in the twins. The novel begins with the birth of fraternal twins, Marian and Jamie, to Addison and Annabel Graves, an oddly matched pair. The sweeping saga of the fictional pilot, Marian Graves, and the history of women’s flight soars through the pages as Marian struggles to fulfill her dream of flying. “I was born to be a wanderer” is the first sentence of Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead, shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize.
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