Charlotte May's Reviews > Circus of Wonders

“All of history is fiction.”

Nellie has grown up an outsider, covered in birth marks people often view her with disdain and ridicule.
When she is sold by her own father into Jasper Jupiter’s Circus of Wonders, she thinks her life is over.
However, she grows to love performing and forming a kinship with the other acts as a family. She even finds love with the lumbering and shy Toby.

But Jasper is greedy and ambitious, and when Nellie becomes more popular than Jasper himself, he gets nasty.
Meanwhile we also have flashbacks from Jasper and his brother Toby’s time during the war and a secret they have carried with them.

I loved all the different characters, the flaws, light and dark - this was an immersive novel that kept me gripped. It is a testament to what it means to be human and how we are all more than just the sum of our parts.