Nights at the Circus

By Angela Carter (Author)
Format: Paperback / softback 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Vintage Classics
ISBN: 9780099388616
Published: 29 Sep 1994
Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Weight :258g
Dimensions: 199 x 130 x 23 (mm)

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**