Nights at the Circus

By: Angela Carter

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Paperback | 6 December 1994 | Edition Number 1

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Is the heroine of this story, Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake?

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.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARAH WATERS

**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

'A spellbinding achievement' Literary Review

'Raunchy, raucous...a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety' The Times

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"Nights at the Circus is a glorious enchantment. But an enchantment which is rooted in an earthy, rich and powerful language...It is a spell-binding achievement" Literary Review "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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