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By (author) Morgenstern Erin
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The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates, reads: Opens at Nightfall Closes at Dawn. When the tents are all aglow, the sign appears. Le Cirque des Reves The Circus of Dreams. Now the circus is open. Now you may enter.
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THE TIKTOK SENSATION
Discover the million-copy bestselling fantasy read.
The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. A sign hanging upon an iron gates reads:
Opens at Nightfall
Closes at Dawn
Full of breath-taking amazements and open only at night, Le Cirque des Rêves seems to cast a spell over all who wander its circular paths. But behind the glittering acrobats, fortune-tellers and contortionists a fierce competition is underway.
Celia and Marco are two young magicians who have been trained since childhood for a deadly duel. With the lives of everyone at the Circus of Dreams at stake, they must test the very limits of the imagination, and of their love.
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”The only response to this novel is simply: wow. It is a breath-taking feat of imagination, a flight of fancy that pulls you in and wraps you up in its spell” The Times
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The Night Circus made me happy. Playful and intensely imaginative, Erin Morgenstern has created the circus I have always longed for.
This is a marvelous book
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Enchanting, and affecting… A strikingly beautiful world, in spite of its darkness
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Dazzling
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Deliciously inventive… Don”t imagine this is a light, frothy tale. For all her humorous touches, Morgernstern…has produced something darker than night
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The only response to this novel is simply: wow. It is a breathtaking feat of imagination, a flight of fancy that pulls you in and wraps you up in its spell
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Charming, magical, mysterious,
enthralling
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Lushly imagined, extremely charming and very, very readable
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Morgenstern displays a conjurer”s dexterity as she develops her tale, and you”d need a heart of stone not to melt at the melodramatic denouement
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The Night Circus pulls you into a world as dark as it is dazzling, fully-realized but still something out of a dream. You will not want to leave it
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Pure pleasure… Erin Morgenstern is a gifted, classic storyteller, a tale-teller, a spinner of the charmed and mesmerizing – I had many other things I was supposed to be doing, but the book kept drawing me back in and I tore through it. You can be certain this riveting debut will create a group of rêveurs all its own
Biographical note:
Erin Morgenstern is a writer and a multimedia artist, who describes all her work as ”fairy tales in one way or another”. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Facebook.com/thenightcircus
www.nightcircus.co.uk
Promotional headline:
Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 – a feast for the senses, a fantasia of magic, mischief and love, The Night Circus is an extraordinary blend of fantasy and reality that will dazzle readers young and old.
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