Haxby's Circus

Welcome to Haxby's Circus, a world of wandering, of pitching the big top on bare paddocks beside some small town, then of trailing off again on the long dusty roads that lie between the harvest fields... Also a world where a young woman is able to discover herself as a person, and to triumph in adversity. Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969), a great Australian novelist, wrote 13 novels and 4 volumes of poetry. She researched Haxby's Circus (1930) while travelling through the countryside with Wirth's Circus. Cover illustration: Les Trapezistes, 1954 - Fernand Leger (France 1881-1955).