The Night Circus is likely to be one of the most talked-about novels of the season. It tells the story of Le Cirque de Reves, a spectacle that arrives in the middle of the evening – amid a flurry of black and white tents – and is open only at night. The circus features two rival magicians, Celia and Marco, raise to duel each other to the death to claim victory on the stage. But when these two fall in love, something magical – and dark – begins to take shape at the night circus.