Circus of Mirrors

Discover the dazzling new historical novel from the author of That Green Eyed Girl and 73 Dove Street

Perfect for fans of City of Girls, Cabaret and Sunday Times bestseller, The Whalebone Theatre.


'Sexy, electrically stylish, and beautiful - a gorgeous story about sisterhood, and a glamorous, evocative passport to a period we all long to get lost in' Daisy Buchanan, award-winning author of Insatiable
'Julie's best novel yet' Georgina Moore, bestselling author of The Garnett Girls

Would you choose your sister or the love of your life?

BERLIN, 1926
After the death of their parents, sisters Leni and Annette only have each other.
Desperate to support her younger sister, Leni finds work at a notorious cabaret: the Babylon Circus, a place where reality and fantasy merge.
It’s an overwhelming new world, and Leni is happiest hiding in the shadows.

That is, until she meets the cabaret’s resident pianist, Paul, beginning a tentative love affair that will play out over the next forty years and will change the course of their lives forever.

In a city whose divisions will define a century, can a love born within the feverish walls of the Babylon Circus ever survive?

And can the bond between Leni and Annette – tugged in opposite directions of their own – also endure?


Praise for Circus of Mirrors:

'A tale of two sisters and a city, all three of them so vividly drawn, I felt I knew them. Superbly atmospheric, with convincingly flawed characters that just leap off the page' Frances Quinn, author of The Bonesetter Woman

'An all-singing, all-dancing, moving and masterful book about two complex sisters living in incredibly complex times. Brilliant.' Anna Mazzola, author of The Clockwork Girl

'Bold, brave and absorbing' Elizabeth Buchan, author of Bonjour, Sophie

'With hints of Atonement, this is an epic novel’ Louise Fein, author of Daughter of the Reich

Praise for Julie Owen Moylan

'Touching, entertaining and hopeful' Sunday Times

'Dazzling' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

'I was gripped from the first page' SARA COX

'Psychologically astute and emotionally absorbing,' DAILY MAIL

'A wonderfully evocative, immersive novel that brings 50s London to life, from the smog and the nightlife to attitudes towards women' SUNDAY EXPRESS

'Emotional, immersive and utterly absorbing' JENNIFER SAINT