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Carnival of Wonder

Macneal:Carnival of Wonder

Autor:	Elizabeth Macneal
Verfügbarkeit:	Auf Lager.
Veröffentlicht am:	29.04.2021
Artikelnummer:	2285709
ISBN / EAN:	9781529002515

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The spellbinding new novel from Elizabeth Macneal, author of the Sunday Times bestselling The Doll Factory.

It is 1865 and in a coastal village in Hampshire, Nell picks violets for a living. Ostracized by her community because of the marks that pepper her skin, Nell keeps her head down and her sights small: her world is her beloved brother and devotion to the sea. Then, Jasper Jupiters Carnival of Wonder arrives on the outskirts of the village. Nell keeps her distance, but the night after the circus has apparently left, she is kidnapped. Her father has sold her, promising Jasper Jupiter his very own leopard girl. It is the greatest betrayal of Nells life, but as she comes to know the other performers and Jaspers quieter, gentler brother Toby, Nell begins to wonder if becoming part of the Carnival of Wonder is the best thing that has ever happened to her. Toby has always stuck to his brothers side: the shadow to his brothers luminous light. When Jasper served in the Crimean War, Toby followed with his camera, and they share a secret - hidden amongst the carnage of those battlefields - which binds them together. But Toby is captivated by Nell. Because she has become Nellie Moon, the star of Jaspers show: in London she is written up in the papers as the eighth wonder of the world, figurines are cast in her image, and crowds rush to watch her soar through the air. But who gets to tell Nells story? And as she falls in love with Toby, can they plot their escape? As the world Jasper has created threatens to crash to the ground around him, Toby must decide where - finally - his loyalty lies. This is a novel with a vivid, brilliant cast of characters, and themes of creativity and ownership, beauty and monstrosity, success and crashing failure, and the Victorian obsession with spectacle and the strange.