Freakslaw

Flett, Jane, author.

Book 2025

"It is the summer of '97 and the repressed Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change. Enter the Freakslaw-a travelling carnival of deviant queers and architects of mayhem. There's Gloria, fortune teller and worm charmer; her daughter Nancy, a contortionist witch; big-hearted tightrope walker, Werewolf Louie; not to mention illusionists and conjoined twins, Cass and Henry, and tattooed human pincushion, Pin Gal. Against Pitlaw's miserably grey...

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