Circus Shoes cover art

Circus Shoes

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Unlimited access to our all-you-can-listen catalogue of 15K+ audiobooks and podcasts
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Circus Shoes

By: Noel Streatfeild
Narrated by: Janet Streatfeild
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £11.99

Buy Now for £11.99

About this listen

Brought to you by Puffin.

Peter and Santa live a rather dull existence with their Aunt Rebecca, but when she dies they face the awful prospect of life in separate orphanages. In desperation they run away to find their only living relative, Uncle Gus, who works in a circus as a clown. Gus will only let them stay if they promise to work hard, and so the children plunge headlong into the circus world where they soon discover skills they never knew they had. But life is so different - will they ever truly belong?

© Noel Streatfeild 1938 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

 Fiction Growing Up Growing Up & Facts of Life Literature & Fiction Music & Performing Arts
All stars
Most relevant
It was an amazing recording and the story was passionate and funny giving a star quality story

Really Good

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The story is lovely, and whilst it's charming that Noel's descendants feel an affinity for her work, it doesn't make them decent narrators. Unfortunately this is read extremely poorly, with such strange emphasis on words that it was a real slog to finish.

Alas, the nepo-narration means that it's very dull

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.