OLDER FICTION
Wallace, Karen

The Unrivalled Spangles

(4) YA A series of tragedies help Ellen Spangle discover whether she truly prefers a future as a governess or one as a dazzling bareback rider in the family circus. The nineteenth-century London setting sometimes feels sketched rather than fully painted. The slowly developing romance between Ellen and a member of a rival circus undergirds the otherwise fast-paced and dramatic plot.

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