Synopsis
Isolated in the spotlight, a circus-girl performs a trapeze-act of strange daring. From the crowd below a journalist watches, betwitched. This novel explores the symbols we create for one another. Colin Thubron has written three novels and six travel books including "Among the Russians".
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"He writes with impressive directness and simplicity at moments of passion-One is aware of the compassionate intelligence that is discreetly but continuously at work in this book" (Sebastian Faulks Independent)
"'Colin Thubron's voice is unique'" (Anita Brookner Spectator)
"Impeccably crafted and beautifully written-many books which are highly enjoyable in the reading leave no imprint on the imagination. This one does" (P. D. James Daily Telegraph)
"Mark Swabey, a provincial journalist, is serving a prison sentence in connection with the death of Clara the Swallow, a circus acrobat with whom he fell in love. And the grief-stricken Swabey looks back on their brief affair, the exact nature of his responsibility for Clara's death is movingly revealed-every sentence is informed by the most intense anguish'" (Michael Dibdin Observer)
"Thubron weaves a skilful, poignant story of love and loss, and also reinvents the myth of the Fall-This novel is above all celebratory. It trumpets the right to walk out on the high wire, to love dangerously and hopelessly - even if death (real or metaphorical) is the price" (Bel Mooney Sunday Times)
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'This is fiction of the highest quality - a story that aims high, risks everything and haunts' Mail on Sunday--
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