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  • Published: 16 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784879662
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $36.99

The Night Circus




VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful

A beautiful hardback edition of the modern fantasy classic, from the bestselling author of The Starless Sea.

'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' The Times

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, 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 in the Circus, 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.

The circus is open.
Get ready to enter the fantastical world of the Night Circus.

'Lush, evocative, dreamlike...a magical, coming-of-age story' Sunday Times

'A beguiling, gripping read... Morgenstern has crafted a thrilling and transporting tale' Economist

Vintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful

  • Published: 16 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784879662
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $36.99

About the author

Erin Morgenstern

Erin Morgenstern is the author of The Night Circus, a bestseller that has enchanted readers around the world and has been translated into thirty-seven languages. She has a degree in Theatre from Smith College, an ever-growing collection of jewellery made from skeleton keys, and a cat on her lap. She lives in Massachusetts.


www.erinmorgenstern.com

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