Trapeze

Author: Ansell, Leigh

Interest age: from c 12 years

Published on 19 September 2019 by Penguin Random House Children's UK (Penguin Books Ltd) in the United Kingdom.

**How do you trust the ground when all you've known is flight?**Seventeen-year-old Corey Ryder can't remember a time when she wasn't gliding through the air of Cirque Mystique's big top on a trapeze.

When tragedy strikes and Corey narrowly escapes from the burning circus tent she once called home, her life is forced to a sudden stand-still.

Now back in high school and trying to fit into small town California, Corey faces living life with two feet firmly on the ground.

When her friendship with local golden boy Luke Everett starts to grow into something more, Corey must learn to perform the high-wire act of being true to who you really are.

The Greatest Showman meets Gilmore Girls in this romantic, bittersweet and beautiful YA coming of age novel.