The Bounce (ebook)

Argumento de The Bounce (ebook)

From the award-winning author of BONE HOUSE...An extraordinary novel of love, death and lions, set in the glamorous and squalid circus world of London in the 1870s.

Nineteen-year-old Nathan crosses the Atlantic in search of the mother who abandoned him as a young child. He takes a job in a circus south of the Thames, where he is quickly caught in a complex web of desire.

THE BOUNCE is gripping, vivid, powerfully evocative: a stunning story of mothers and sons, rejection and belonging, and the treacherous pull of love.

One glimpse of the fantastical and seedy world of the Victorian circus and you?re utterly drawn in?Delightful and bittersweet.

Betsy Tobin?s The Bounce is set amid the excitement of a 19th century English circus, moving convincingly between human and animal perspectives of events?A sad and powerful book, which leaves a strong emotional imprint.

One glimpse of the fantastical and seedy world of the Victorian circus and youre utterly drawn inDelightful and bittersweet.

This novel can only be described in terms of something delicious like a real pavlova, full of wonderful layers for your intellectual teeth. For me, good historical novels are like good science fiction: they examine our fears, foibles and ways of thinking in a setting so different from our own, but through characters who feel like us, that we are forced to rethink. This The Bounce does so well?a stunning novel and worth the contentrated reading it deserves.

This novel can only be described in terms of something delicious like a real pavlova, full of wonderful layers for your intellectual teethA stunning novel and worth the concentrated reading it deserves.

Tobin?s treatment of the animals is a triumph?Avoiding anthropomorphic cliché, she deftly portrays the discomfort of a lioness in the last stages of pregnancy, the awkwardness of her mate and the sheer, muscle-bound physicality of the creatures themselves.

Beautifully writtensatisfying.

Spell-bindinga captivating work from a prize-winning author.

Spell-binding?a captivating work from a prize-winning author.

Betsy Tobin has set her beautifully written second novel in a 19th-century London circus?Satisfying.0