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This Re-loved classic.. May have water marks from tears, being held to tightly from fear or even dog ears.

This is a great, glorious, big-hearted novel set in a travelling circus touring the back blocks of America during the Great Depression of the early 1930. It’s a of love and hate, trains and circuses, dwarves and fat ladies, horses and elephants - or to be more specific, one elephant, Rosie, start of the Benzini Bros Most Spectacular Show on Earth

When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, swindlers and misfits in a second-rate circus struggling to survive.

A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that Jacob meets Marlena, a beautiful equestrienne who is married to August , a charismatic but violently unpredictable animal trainer, Jacob also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems unmanageable until until he discovers an unusual way to reach her.

Water for Elephants is a story that has it all - warmth, humour, poignancy and passion. It has an energy and spirit like the feeling under a big tip when the show is about to begin. It is a novel that will win your heart.