BOOK OF THE WEEK – THE NIGHT CIRCUS
This week’s Book of the Week has just been published in paperback, but was a best seller in hardback. The Night Circus is a fantastic story about two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who are competing against each other in the mysterious Night Circus – which as you might imagine only appears at night!
The blurb says…
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway – a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love – a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.
True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.
I am reading The Night Circus just now and I will review it when I’ve finished it. There is a copy in the Library; why not borrow it and see what you think?