Welcome to the circus - strange, dirty and shameless, this is greatest show on Earth.
Sophie Fevvers is a seductress, a braggart and an aerialiste extraordinaire in 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**
READER LOVE - JOIN THE CIRCUS:
'My God. What a breathtaking journey.'
'It plays itself out like a fabulous carnival.'
'Now I'm done, and I don't know what to do with myself'
'[B]eautifully written and surprisingly life-affirming, while also being strange, sly, and sexed-up'
'Angela Carter's world is, as always, a dirty, earthy, erotic, yet soaringly ethereal place to spend one's time'
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