McLain's (The Paris Wife) newest fictionalized biography features aviatrix Beryl Markham. Markham had an idyllic childhood on a horse farm in colonial Kenya where her best friend was the son of a native farm worker. After a miserable stretch at boarding school, she made an early and unsuccessful marriage. Racehorses were her real love, and she built her reputation as a winning trainer, but she was land rich and cash poor. She began a long-term love affair with big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton (who was also the lover of Out of Africa author Karen Blixen). She discovered flying in the 1920s and became the first woman to fly from England to North America. Her 1942 memoir West with the Night chronicles her time as a bush pilot and that record-breaking flight. Narrator Katharine McEwan's clear British accent sounds quite like Markham (per newsreel footage on YouTube). -VERDICT A popular choice for book clubs, this excellent audiobook is recommended for all collections. ["[An] intriguing window into the soul of a woman who refused to be tethered": LJ 5/15/15 starred review of the Ballantine hc.]-Nann Blaine Hilyard, formerly with Zion-Benton P.L., IL © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.