Book description
From the crowd below a journalist watches, as a circus girl performs
her strangely daring trapeze act, and is captivated by her beauty,
outrageous costumes and exotic make-up in such a way that he finds
himself falling helplessly in love with her. But it is from a prison
cell that the journalist remembers what happened - a prison like a
microcosm of the world outside, where there are those who risk, and
those who are self-incarcerated. Exploring the courage to aim beyond
human limitation, Falling is an intensely moving story of love and loss.
Colin Thubron was born in London in 1939. He left publishing to travel -
mainly in Asia and North Africa, where he made documentary films which
were shown on BBC and world television. Afterwards, he returned to the
Middle East, and wrote five books on the Area. In 1984, the Book
Marketing Council nominated him one of the twenty best contemporary
writers on travel.
