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This is actually the eagerly-anticipated new novel from the fantastic author whose last book, Great to your Problem, was short-listed for the prestigious Giller Prize and won the Commonwealth Prize for Europe and the Caribbean.The Small Shadows revolves around three siblings in the world of vaudeville before and throughout the First World War. We follow the lives of three consequently: the oldest, Aurora and most stunning, who is sixteen once the book starts; considerate Clover, annually younger; and the youngest sibling, wondrous headstrong sprite Bella, who is thirteen. Girls, supervised by their loving but hardly dealing Mother, are compelled to create their living as a performing work following the early death of the father. They start with little besides childhood and wish, but Marina Endicott’s guru would be to present how the three women gradually and continuously develop into accurate designers even while they steer their method to maturity among a cast of extraordinary people – some of them enchanting charlatans, some of them unknown eccentrics, and some of them simply normal-seeming people with enchanting gifts.Using her beautiful writing and extraordinary perception, Endicott attracts us onto the brightly lit stage and subsequently into the little shadows that hide behind the curtain, and shows how the-art of vaudeville -- in most its range, chaos, melodrama, Humor and sadness -- echoes the-art of existence itself.