The Circus - Olivia Levez 电子书Mobi+epub
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Teens > Literature & Fiction
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Oneworld Publications (June 13, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1786070944
ISBN-13: 978-1786070944
The Circus Paperback – June 13, 2017
by Olivia Levez (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Circus-Olivia-Levez/dp/1786070944
Product details
Teens > Literature & Fiction
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Oneworld Publications (June 13, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1786070944
ISBN-13: 978-1786070944
Women in their infinite variety are celebrated.... A beautiful and unforgettable story about a girl who learns she must lose who she thought she was before she can become who she's meant to be."
―Kirkus Reviews
"Willow’s personal revelations make her compelling journey of reinvention soar."
―Booklist, ★ Starred Review
Why would a girl who has everything want to run away and never be found?
Willow has staged runaways ever since she was a little girl. She has everything a young person should want: a rich daddy, clothes, money, a pony and a place at a prestigious boarding school. In reality, she has everything except the thing she really wants: a father who cares enough to find her.
Aged sixteen, on the eve of her father’s wedding, she ruins the bride’s dress and escapes through a window, determined never to return. Her missing mother was a circus performer, and Willow wants to follow in her footsteps. But the performers she meets don’t want her. When her last bit of money is stolen by Suze, another runaway girl she thought she could trust, Willow becomes really homeless. Then Suze comes tumbling back into her life and a desperate Willow has to decide whether to trust her all over again . . .
So begins their frightening, exhilarating odyssey though hunger, performance, desperation and dreams. Will they both survive and will Willow make it to the circus of her imagining?
Olivia Levez takes you into the very heart of a girl who wants so hard to be lost, but saves herself through a powerful friendship and the awakening of a need for home.
Editorial Reviews
Review
★"It’s a romantic notion, as well known as fairy tales and often instilled with the same spirit of enchantment, but running away to the circus doesn’t provide Willow a magical escape from life’s problems. On the surface, the calculated destruction of her father’s fiancé’s wedding dress and subsequent disappearance amount to nothing more than a rich girl’s acts of teenage rebellion. However, Willow’s first-person narrative exposes an array of deep-seated troubles propelling her from a posh life to a gritty existence on society’s fringe. Unable to tolerate the prospect of acquiring “the Handbag” as her new, twenty-something mom, Willow runs away with a plan to track down her real mother―a trapeze artist who returned to the circus when her daughter was three. Willow hitches her way to Hastings, a seaside town in England, where she believes her mother once worked, and ends up living on the streets. Still convinced that her future lies with the circus, she befriends a free-spirited homeless girl, Suz, who teaches her to swallow fire and walk a wire. Levez doesn’t glamorize the girls’ lifestyle, which leaves them hungry, filthy, and vulnerable. Yet as Willow begins performing, she truly comes alive. Some may find the ending too pat, but Willow’s personal revelations make her compelling journey of reinvention soar."
―Booklist, ★ Starred Review
Review
"A fascinating setting, heart-cracking writing, and a big bold friendship at the center."
―Sue Wallman, author of Lying About Last Summer
"A punchy explosion of a book ... Wonderful."
―Kathryn Evans, author of More of Me
Review
Praise for Olivia Levez's debut YA novel, THE ISLAND
"Echoing O’Dell’s Island of the Blue Dolphins, Levez’s story will keep readers riveted as determined, hard-edged Frances fights to survive."
—STARRED Review, Publishers Weekly
“A teen struggles against both nature and her own past experiences in a reflective survival tale.... Not all readers will embrace this novel's haunting, open-ended conclusion, but those who do will find much to appreciate and discuss."
—Kirkus Reviews
“This is one book that should be on everyone’s radar. Fast-paced and incredibly written, readers will be
captivated by Fran and her desire to just survive.”
—YA Books Central
"With a huge debt to Robinson Crusoe and the film Cast Away, this ambitious story stars troubled teenager Frances, whose nurturing love for her younger brother drives her to imagine escaping their abusive, dysfunctional home."
—The Daily Mail
About the Author
Olivia Levez divides her time between teaching English and binge-writing in her caravan by the sea. Her first book, The Island (Oneworld 2016), received critical acclaim upon publication in both the US and UK. Olivia likes hula-hooping, yoga and real ale, but not at the same time. She lives in Worcestershire with her husband, two sons and her dog, Basil.
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