I flew to the sun

Pilot Beryl Markham, Baroness Blixen, their lover Denys Finch Hatton... and memories of Africa

From the bestselling author of The Paris Wife

Kenya at the beginning of the 20th century... A place where the indigenous world of black warriors clashes with a decadent aristocratic society. A white child in the middle of black Africa. This is Beryl, who was abandoned by her mother in her childhood and left with her father on a horse farm. His unconventional upbringing made Beryl a bold, unconventional young woman. But even the wildest child has to grow up, and so life will show her its worse side. Farm collapse, one disastrous relationship after another...
Beryl takes it into her head to do what she does best: to train the winners of horse races. But in marriage, he loses. Especially when she falls desperately in love with the charismatic Denys Finch Hatton, lover of the famous Baroness Blixen. Yes, that Karen Blixen, the quirky lady made famous by her book Memories of Africa.
Beryl is looking for his place on earth. But it's not on the ground at all. He's in the clouds. In the cockpit. He wants to be the best. Cross the Atlantic. To reach the sun. To break fate.

The book became a New York Times bestseller.