Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter / 368-page paperback published in 2025 by Vintage Classics in their Weird Girls series / ISBN 9781529955606

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Welcome to the circus - strange, dirty and shameless, this is the greatest show on Earth.

Sophie Fevvers is a seductress, a braggart and an ariel performer in 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

The Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.