![]() Do you always spend time in a place before writing about it? Wowee! Each book you’ve written is set in a totally different location. And I can tell you it is the most amazing sensation – dropping through the air, and reaching out for someone’s hands as you fall. I took lessons in the flying trapeze, so that I would know the details – things like which bits of you ache, or how the bar feels against your skin. ![]() The four children in the group that carry out the heist are an animal-whisperer, a pick-pocket, a trapeze artist, and a girl with a ![]() The Good Thieves was one of my favourite novels to research – it’s about heists and law-breaking and wild daring, and the circus becomes part ![]() Hi Katherine! Your newest novel The Good Thieves features circus performers. ![]()
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