Join debut author, Emma Cowing for an evening of conversation about her brand new book, The Show Woman.
Inspired by Emma’s own family history. Emma’s own Great Aunt Violet was a Show Woman: a brilliant trapeze artist and bareback horse rider, you’ll learn all about how Emma penned her incredible circus story.
Hosted by historical fiction author of The Quick and The Dead, Emma Hinds, we’ll be hosting this event at the brilliant Crown and Conspirator in Bramhall.
About The Show Woman
Can you see those sparkly lights of the fairground lit up like a jewel box?
Do you hear the brass bands and the finicky barrel organs? Feel the pickpockets racing through the swell in search of a loose shilling or a stray button? Smell the sweet candy floss mixed with tobacco pipes in the air?
Scotland, 1910: when Lena’s father dies, she decides to sell the carousel her father cared for like a child and is advised to look for a husband, or a job in a factory.
But then flame-haired Violet, known to all in the fairgrounds as ‘the greatest trapeze artist that ever lived’, suggests they go it alone with their own, all-female act. With her outspoken ways and her refusal to marry, Violet is as much an outcast as Lena. What do they have to lose? Recruiting bareback horse-rider Rosie, on the run from her abusive father, and Carmen whose rainbow ribbons hide the darkness in her past, to join the line-up, the four women form an unbreakable bond.
Thrust into a harsh and dangerous world that treats them with suspicion, disdain and even violence, they must forge their own path in search of freedom, security, and love.
Book An Evening with Emma Cowing at Crown & Conspirator
