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The ringmaster's wife

ISBN: 1410491013
ISBN: 9781410491015
Physical Description: 529 pages ; 23 cm. large print
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2016.
Copyright: &copy;2016

Cambron, Kristy (author.).

Summary: In turn-of-the-century America, a young girl dreams of a world that stretches beyond the confines of a quiet life on the family farm. With little more than her wit and a cigar box of treasures, Mable steps away from all she knows, seeking the limitless marvels of the Chicago World s Fair. There, a chance encounter triggers her destiny a life with a famed showman by the name of John Ringling.<p>A quarter of a century later, Lady Rosamund Easling boards a ship to America as a last adventure before her arranged marriage. There, the twenties are roaring, and the rich and famous gather at opulent, Gatsby-esque parties. The Jazz Age has arrived, and with it, the golden era of the American circus, whose queen is none other than the enigmatic Mable Ringling.