![]() ![]() When the Skycircus arrives, these questions reach their climax, and a dangerous escapade kindles new maturity in Lily and Robert. While she worries about her secret, Lily also wonders if it should be secret at all, and whether there are others like herself who feel deep shame about their bodies, steeped in the knowledge that they’re “freaks” who disturb the “normal” populace. The cogheart saved her life after the crash that took her mother’s, but melding clockwork with living beings has been forbidden. ![]() At the Skycircus, things aren’t what they seem when the big top’s lights go down, Lily, Robert, and Malkin are pressed into the ride of their lives.Įxternally unremarkable, Lily harbors a secret: she bears a clockwork heart instead of her own. Her curiosity piqued, Lily sneaks out to attend, only to be followed by her loyal friend, Robert, and Malkin, her mechanimal fox. Full of dark thrills and derring-do, Peter Bunzl’s steampunk fantasy Skycircus finds fourteen-year-old Lily receiving a personal invitation to Slimwood’s Stupendous Traveling Skycircus, accompanied by a package that contains her mother’s diary. ![]()
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