Circus of Ghosts, The

Circus of Ghosts, The
Barbara Ewing
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NZ$ 29.99
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 544pg
28 Jul 2011 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780751540956
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New York, late 1840s, and in the wild, noisy, brash and beautiful circus of Silas P. Swift a shadowy, mesmeric woman entrances crowds because she can unlock the secrets of troubled minds. Above them all her daughter sweeps and soars: acrobat and tightrope-walker. People cannot take their eyes from the mysterious woman in the Big Top who can help so many others ? but she cannot unlock dark, literally unspeakable, memories of her own. In London memories fester in the mind of an old and venomous duke of the realm. He plots, with an unscrupulous lawyer (and a huge financial reward) against the mother and the daughter: to kill one, and to abduct the other and bring her across the Atlantic to him: She is mine. The actress and mesmerist Cordelia Preston and her daughter Gwenlliam live with their unusual family in the exciting new city among exciting new ideas: the telegraph, the daguerrotype, anaesthesia, table-tapping. And among the dangerous street-gangs of New York also, whose raw violence meets Cordelia and Gwenlliam and those that they love, with unexpected results.
Expect acrobatics and adversity Book of the Week, Fabulous magazine A gritty 19th-century thriller Daily Express This book will stay with you long after you've put it down Star magazine A real page-turner through which you will get both the smell of the greasepaint and the whiff of the crowd, most of whom seem intent on redecorating the interior of the Big Top with their tobacco spit. Highly recommended for fans of entertaining historical fiction lovelytreez.com blog
Barbara Ewing is a New Zealand-born actress and author who lives in London. She has a university degree in English and Maori and won the Bancroft Gold Medal at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780751540956
Published: 28 Jul 2011
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sphere
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 544
Dewey: 823.914

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