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The Bounce

Betsy Tobin

THE BOUNCE is a masterpiece of lion-taming cross-dressing lost mothers and lost innocence set in the glamorous and squalid world of the Victorian circus. Nineteen-year-old Nathan sails the Atlantic in search of the mother who abandoned him. He takes a job as a lion-tamer in a circus south of the Thames where he meets Lulu a celebrated rope-dancer with secrets; Nan the orange-girl haunted by her dead son and his menacing father; Queen the lion on whom everything rests and at last his mother - or is she his mother after all?



Like BONE HOUSE THE BOUNCE is pacy darkly Gothic and powerfully evocative but its setting and the characters elevate it to a new level: literary historical fiction at its spine-tingling compelling best.

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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JAN 1, 2007
  • Imprint : Headline
  • Page Extent : 288
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780747264965
  • Price : INR 520
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Betsy Tobin

Betsy Tobin was born in the American Midwest and moved to England in 1989. She is the author of three other novels Bone House The Bounce and Ice Land. She lives in London with her husband and four children.

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