Orphans of the Carnival

Julia Pastrana is the singing and dancing marvel from Mexico, heralded on tours across nineteenth-century Europe. Yet few can see past the thick hair that covers her: she is both the fascinating toast of a Governor's ball and the shunned, revolting, unnatural beast, to be hidden from children and pregnant women. But what is her link to Rose, collector of lost treasures in an attic room in modern-day south London? The new novel from the author of .