
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux tells a bewitching tale of circus magic & hypnotism which seems to hide a more sinister objective in his exquisite novel ” Millroy the Magician”. Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina walks into the tent at the County Fair & finds her life transformed. Fixing her with her hypnotic gaze, ” Millroy the Magician” performs astonishing miracles. When she is later magicked into his trailer & Millroy promised to train her as his assistant, Jilly feels safe for the first time her her short life. But Millroy is more than a mere stage-show magician. A vegetarian & health fanatic, a possessor of healing & hypnotic powers, Millroy is on a mission to change the eating habits og an entire nation. & through Jilly he has found the strength to preach his evangelical message. With Millroy`s messianic fervour ever growing, Jilly begins to have doubts
- but Millroy knows that without Jilly there will be no magic...” Brilliantly done. Theroux`s best book for a very long time”. (Jonathan Raban, ” The Times Literary Supplement”). ” Fresh & unexpected...among Theroux`s best”. (Philip Hensher, ” Guardian”). ” Magical”. (” Daily Telegraph”). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people & places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels & collected short stories, ” My Other Life”, ” The Collected Stories”, ” My Secret History”, ” The Lower River”, ” The Stranger at the Palazzo d` Oro”, ”A Dead Hand”, ” The Elephanta Suite”, ” Saint Jack”, ” The Consul`s File”, ” The Family Arsenal”, ” The Mosquito Coast”, & his works of non-fiction, including the iconic ” The Great Railway Bazaar” are available from Penguin.