City of Circles
$33.94
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
11 June 2018
Summary
CITY OF CIRCLES is an entrancing love story between Danu and Morrie, two circus performers, and Danu’s Lewis Carroll-esque odyssey through the magical city of Matryoshka, that ends with a heart-warming yet bittersweet twist.
Danu is in mourning for her parents after a disease has ravaged the circus she calls home. She begins a high-wire act with Morrie, a charismatic hunchback who wants to marry her. But her mother has entrusted her with a mysterious locket that will …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473656710 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473656710 |
| Author: | Jess Richards |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 11 June 2018 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 149mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
Enthralling love story about two circus performers, City of Circles is mesmerizing and vividly imagined
Utterly transporting - The Pool
Enthralling love story about two circus performers, City of Circles is mesmerizing and vividly imagined. - Storgy, Summer ReadsWhat a rich sensory experience Jess creates for us. What a full and fascinating world. Her exploration of self and grief will resonate with many who have struggled to find the quiet sense of themselves in a busy, confusing world. - Ros Barber, author of the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning The Marlowe PapersHer writing reminds me of Anna Smaill’s The Chimes. It is lyrical and sensual, at times dense with wordplay and mythologising. - Landfall ReviewJess Richards invokes, among others, The Interpretation of Dreams, the Brothers Grimm, Angela Carter and Shakespearian comedy. - GuardianJess Richards’s debut is a cornucopia of secrets and surprises, written in a bright, sassy style. The author is exuberantly inventive in creating a bitter-sweet world of magical transformations. - Independent on SNAKE ROPESThematically rich, Cooking With Bones evokes authors like Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson while retaining a distinct and individual voice. - Glasgow HeraldSnake Ropes could be the first great feminist novel of our times with its ranging and unflinching investigation of symbolic and social abjection, marginalisation and taboo. - Max PorterAbout The Author
Jess Richards
Jess Richards was born in Wales in 1972 and studied Creative Writing at Sussex University in 2010. Her debut novel, SNAKE ROPES, was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa First Novel Award and longlisted for the Green Carnation Prize. Her second novel, the acclaimed COOKING WITH BONES was published in 2014. CITY OF CIRCLES is her third novel.
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