
Nights at the Circus (Paperback)
Angela Carter (author)- 10+ in stock
Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake?
Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London, St Petersburg and Siberia.
**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099388616
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 255 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
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A glorious piece of work, a set-piece studded with set-pieces. The narrative has a splendid ripe momentum, and each descriptive touch contributes a pang of vividness. By doing possible things impossibly well, the book achieves a major enchantment * Times Literary Supplement *
A mistress-piece of sustained and weirdly wonderful Gothic that's both intensely amusing and also provocatively serious. This is a big, superlatively imagined novel * Observer *
A remarkable book by any standards * Guardian *
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Magical, fantastical and utterly absorbing! A perfect book to read before bed as it is total escapism! Fevvers is blinkin' gorgeous!
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