Paula McLain

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. But when everything Beryl knows and trusts dissolves, she is catapulted into a string of disastrous relationships.

In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War. Drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in the devastating conflict, it’s her chance to prove herself a worthy journalist in a field dominated by men. But she also finds herself unexpectedly - and uncontrollably - falling in love with Ernest Hemingway, a man on his way to becoming a legend.