The Show Woman SPORTS_ROMANCE Oakman's novel is a gripping

Oakman's novel is a gripping

but will chilling secrets and illicit romance unravel everything she's ever known

highlighting the work of a handful of extraordinary people who risked their lives to stand up to the intellectual strait-jacket Stalin created

Following his survey exhibition at the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery

'Where the Dark Stands Still is a triumph

The Show Woman SPORTS_ROMANCE Oakman's novel is a grippingThe Show Woman WHATEVER LIFE BRINGS, THE SHOW MUST GO ON 1910. With the disappearance of her mother and the sudden death of her father, Lena instantly loses any security she has within the circus she has known all her life. She is advised to sell the carousel her father cared for like a child and look for a husband, or a job in a factory. Until flame haired Violet, known to all in the fairgrounds as 'the greatest trapeze artist that ever lived',