City of Circles

Hardcover | 10 August 2017 | Edition Number 1

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CITY OF CIRCLES is an entrancing love story between Danu and Morrie, two circus performers, and Danu's Lewis Carroll-esque odyssey through the magical city of Matryoshka, that ends with a heart-warming yet bittersweet twist.

Danu is a tightrope walker who is mourning her parents, after a disease has ravaged the circus where she grew up. Her mother has entrusted her with a locket that hides a secret.

Over the years, Danu pushes away her grief and develops elaborate and successful high-wire acts with Morrie, a charismatic hunchback who wants to marry her. When the circus returns to Danu's birthplace, Matryoshka, Danu is enchanted by the temples, spice mists, and pleasure seekers within the intoxicating outer circle district.

Here, she finally gains the courage to open her mother's locket, and discovers the name of a stranger who lives behind the locked gate of the Inner Circle. Fated to remain in Matryoshka, Danu attempts to resolve this mystery . . .

Will she and Morrie ever be reunited, or will something far more unexpected be waiting for her in the mysterious heart of the city?

Industry Reviews

Jess Richards invokes, among others, The Interpretation of Dreams, the Brothers Grimm, Angela Carter and Shakespearian comedy. - Guardian

Jess Richards's debut is a cornucopia of secrets and surprises, written in a bright, sassy style. The author is exuberantly inventive in creating a bitter-sweet world of magical transformations. - Independent on SNAKE ROPES

Thematically rich, Cooking With Bones evokes authors like Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson while retaining a distinct and individual voice. - Glasgow Herald

Snake Ropes could be the first great feminist novel of our times with its ranging and unflinching investigation of symbolic and social abjection, marginalisation and taboo. - Max Porter

[Angela] Carter's influence is in evidence here too, and COOKING WITH BONES also has a generous pinch of Joanne Harris's culinary magic. - Daily Mail

For anyone who loves the magical realism of Angela Carter, Erin Mortgenstern and Audrey Niffenegger... a perfect summer read. - The English Home on SNAKE ROPES

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