Travels With A Mexican Circus Katie Hickman by Katie Hickman 9781408853610, 1408853612 instant download after payment.

First published in Great Britain 1993

Katie Hickman went to Mexico in search of magic. And amidst the cruel poverty of the country’s capital city, she found it in the circus, with its Big Top, clowns, trapeze artists, elephants – where cheap, torn materials & tarnished sequins were transformed into nights of glittering illusion. Gradually adjusting to the harsh ways of the circus’s nomadic lifestyle & befriending the people who dedicate their lives to it, she soon became completely bewitched by this new world, eventually performing in the circus herself as 'La Gringa Estrella'.

'Mexico will not have been portrayed more vividly since Graham Greene's The Lawless Roads ... Enchanting' - Daily Telegraph

'Magic is at the heart of Hickman's narrative, not just in the fabulous illusions of the acts themselves or the superstitions of the circus people, but in the fantastic stories of the characters she presents' - Sunday Times

'A delight... The stories of the cirqueros themselves read like tales by Gabriel Garcia Marquez' - Harpers & Queen

'The most ambitiously imaginative sort of travel writing' - Patrick Skene Catling  

Katie Hickman is the best-selling author of 10 books. Her most recent work, Brave Hearted, was preceded by She-Merchants, Buccaneers & Gentlewomen: British Women in India 1600 - 1900 (published in 2019), & by the highly-acclaimed series of novels, The Aviary Gate, The Pindar Diamond & The House at Bishopsgate, a trilogy set in early 17th century Constantinople, Venice, London, & rural Wiltshire. Born into a diplomatic family, Hickman had a peripatetic childhood, growing up in Spain, Ireland, Singapore, & South America. She lives in London on a converted barge on the River Thames.