Betsy Tobin
ASIN: B00NL9SJ2S
Publisher: Accent Press
Pages: 213
‘One glimpse of the fantastical and seedy world of the Victorian circus and you’re utterly drawn in…Delightful and bittersweet.’ The Big Issue
‘Betsy Tobin has set her beautifully written second novel in a 19th-century London circus…Satisfying.’ The Independent
‘Spell-binding…a captivating work from a prize-winning author.’ Lancashire Evening Post
‘Worth rolling up for this darkly romantic book.’ Play
‘Beautifully written…satisfying.’ INDEPENDENT
From the award-winning author of BONE HOUSE...An extraordinary novel of love, death and lions, set in the glamorous and squalid circus world of London in the 1870s.
Nineteen-year-old Nathan crosses the Atlantic in search of the mother who abandoned him as a young child. He takes a job in a circus south of the Thames, where he is quickly caught in a complex web of desire.
THE BOUNCE is gripping, vivid, powerfully evocative: a ...