The Gracekeepers: A Novel

"Glasgow-based author Kirsty Logan sets her debut novel, The Gracekeepers, in a world that’s been almost entirely inundated by the ocean, where the Circus Excalibur roams the sea looking for islands on which to set up its big top. The scarcity of land leads to two contentious classes of people: damplings and landlockers. Evoking Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus, Logan not only captures the cloistered eeriness of circus life; she does so in a way that lovingly reinvents both the weird whimsy and archetypal resonance of fairy tales."