Nights at the Circus is a glorious enchantment. But an enchantment which is rooted in an earthy, rich and powerful language...It is a spell-binding achievement
Literary Review

Nights at the Circus is a glorious enchantment. But an enchantment which is rooted in an earthy, rich and powerful language...It is a spell-binding achievement
Literary Review

A glorious piece of work, a set-piece studded with set-pieces. The narrative has a splendid ripe momentum, and each descriptive touch contributes a pang of vividness. By doing possible things impossibly well, the book achieves a major enchantment
Times Literary Supplement

A glorious piece of work, a set-piece studded with set-pieces. The narrative has a splendid ripe momentum, and each descriptive touch contributes a pang of vividness. By doing possible things impossibly well, the book achieves a major enchantment
Times Literary Supplement

A mistress-piece of sustained and weirdly wonderful Gothic that's both intensely amusing and also provocatively serious. This is a big, superlatively imagined novel
Observer

A mistress-piece of sustained and weirdly wonderful Gothic that's both intensely amusing and also provocatively serious. This is a big, superlatively imagined novel
Observer

A remarkable book by any standards
Guardian

A remarkable book by any standards
Guardian

Isabel Blake 25 October 2011

Get ready for dancing tigers, depressed elephants, con artists, clowns, newspaper hacks, sinister russian aristocrats and tarts with hearts of gold- Nights at the Circus is full of unforgettable, completely unscrupulous characters. In Nights at the Circus Jack Walser, the cynical American journalist, follows Fevvers- a winged woman, or so she claims- from London to Siberia on her world tour as he tries to work out- ‘is she fact or is she fiction?’ Beautiful, vulgar and irrepressible, Fevvers is dazzling- my favourite Angela Carter heroine- and her story will have you spellbound.