“Reading this novel is like having a marvelous dream, in which you are asleep enough to believe everything that is happening, but awake enough to relish the experience and understand that it is magical.” “ employs her supple prose to conjure up a series of wonders: A maze made of clouds, a ship of books floating on a sea of ink, a tent that seems to contain a vast desert.” A love story for adults that feels luxuriously romantic.”

Norrell, The Night Circus presents a sprightly version of 19th-century English magic. “Echoing the immense pleasure of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. “ few pages in…and you know you are in the presence of an extraordinary storyteller.” The Night Circus is worth staying up for.” Steeped in circus lore, filled with evocative scenes of magic and illusion, enriched by characters as varied as the clockmaker who crafted the circus’s iconic timepiece. “The Night Circus is the real deal, the kind of novel that will appeal to romantics, history buff, circus aficionados, mystery fans, and lovers of a good story. Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife Playful and intensely imaginative, Erin Morgenstern has created the circus I have always longed for and she has populated it with dueling love-struck magicians, precocious kittens, hyper-elegant displays of beauty and complicated clocks. The Night Circus defies both genres and expectations.” So sparklingly alive, you’ll swear the pages are breathing in your hands…. Part love story, part fable, and a knockout debut…. 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.įind a Reader’s Guide Starred review from Kirkus. 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. 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. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.īut 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. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

Here is a very limited list of places to find it in various formats: It is currently available in paperback from Vintage Anchor in the US and Vintage in the UK and a great many other lovely publishers around the world. THE NIGHT CIRCUS is my debut novel which was first published in 2011.

The night circus book