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. 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. So I gave it a read, and let me tell you, this book absolutely blew me away. Until this past December, when I asked my Instagram friends to recommend a book for me to read, and The Night Circus was the immediate answer. It was such a cool thing to realise, because I’d only been doing NaNoWriMo for a couple of years myself, and I was really starting to get serious about the idea of publishing books, and The Night Circus was the proof that good things came out of NaNoWriMo. I bought a copy of this book a few years after it came out, and then it sat on my shelf gathering dust, always with the intention of reading it, but never quite getting around to it. It was the first book I’d ever heard of that was written through NaNoWriMo (across the course of two NaNoWriMos actually, because apparently Erin Morgenstern is a bit of a rebel).

'The only response to this novel is simply: wow.The Night Circus was one of those books that I heard about way back, through NaNoWriMo I believe. 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.Ĭomplete the gorgeous anniversary collection with The Starless Sea, the second novel from the author of the The Night Circus, out now. But behind the glittering acrobats, fortune-tellers and contortionists a fierce competition is underway.Ĭelia and Marco are two young magicians who have been trained since childhood for a deadly duel. A sign hanging upon an iron gates reads:įull of breath-taking amazements and open only at night, Le Cirque des Reves seems to cast a spell over all who wander its circular paths. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. Rediscover the million-copy bestselling fantasy read with a different kind of magic, now in a stunning anniversary edition to mark 10 years since it's paperback debut.

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