Haxby's Circus

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Run away to the circus with this book by the award-winning Australian novelist Katharine Susannah Prichard.Welcome to Haxby's Circus, the lightest, brightest little show on earth. From Bendigo to Narrabri, the Haxby family and their troupe pitch the big top, hang the lights and call out their menagerie. Gina Haxby, the bareback rider, has a dreadful accident. What's to be if she can never ride again What is her place now, amongst her brothers, sisters and fellow showmen the adage is: you run away with the circus to find yourself, but what if it's all you've ever known Gina must be the master of her own fate. In a plume of feathers, a swish of satin and at the sound of the drum and tin whistle, the dinkum circus must go on.

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Katharine Susannah Prichard was born in 1883 in Fiji and spent part of her childhood in Melbourne and part in Tasmania before moving to Greenmount, Western Australia, where she died in 1969. Her novels include The Pioneers (winner of the Australian section of Hodder & Stoughton's All-Empire novel competition), Working Bullocks, Coonardoo and The Black Opal, but she also wrote poetry, short stories and a play. She went on the road with the iconic Wirth's Circus to research Haxby's Circus. The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre was established in 1985 at her former home in the Perth Hills.