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The nights are closing in, Christmas is around the corner and it is time for us to announce our November 2026 read! Anyone who knows Louise, AKA our host, knows she loves Angela Carter and so it was only a matter of time before we did another book by her, this time with Nights at the Circus!
“To think I really fooled you!” She marveled, “It goes to show there’s nothing like confidence.”
Welcome to the circus – strange, dirty and shameless, this is the greatest show on Earth.
Sophie Fevvers, the ‘Cockney Venus’ who claims to have been hatched from an egg, is a seductress, a braggart and an ariel performer in Colonel Kearney’s circus. She is also part woman, part swan...or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialist extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney’s circus.
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.
Published in 1984 and named one of the most influential books of all time by the BBC, Nights at the Circus is rich in symbolism and offers a unique critique of social norms at the turn of the 20th century.
If you’d like to attend our November meeting, visit Red Lion Books, DM The Cocoa Bookclub or email [email protected] for more information.
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“To think I really fooled you!” She marveled, “It goes to show there’s nothing like confidence.”
Welcome to the circus – strange, dirty and shameless, this is the greatest show on Earth.
Sophie Fevvers, the ‘Cockney Venus’ who claims to have been hatched from an egg, is a seductress, a braggart and an ariel performer in Colonel Kearney’s circus. She is also part woman, part swan...or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialist extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney’s circus.
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.
Published in 1984 and named one of the most influential books of all time by the BBC, Nights at the Circus is rich in symbolism and offers a unique critique of social norms at the turn of the 20th century.
If you’d like to attend our November meeting, visit Red Lion Books, DM The Cocoa Bookclub or email [email protected] for more information.
#Bookstagram #BookWorm #BookLover
#Bookish #Bibliophile
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