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Spangles, Elephants, Violets Me will bring joy to your heart and cause you to want to run away with the circus. The writing is so vivid in texture that you can almost smell the cotton candy and feel sawdust underfoot. Readers will immediately find themselves immersed, traveling with Victoria across dazzling landscapes, and at times along bumpy roads. From the silent lonely halls of a rigid Catholic boarding school to an explosion of color, amidst a brass-band overture within the big top; to read this marvelous book is to become a kid all over again. It will lift your spirits, nourish your imagination and - at moments - bring a tear to your eye. It can at once be taut, heartbreaking and exhilarating, but never dull. Finally, someone has written the authentic circus book!