Publisher's Synopsis
'You can't mix tigers and husbands. And anyhow, I prefer the tigers.' In the 1910s and 1920s, when circus was the most popular form of entertainment in North America, Mabel Stark made her name in a man's world as the greatest female tiger trainer in history, the centre-ring finale act for the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus. Brazen, courageous, obsessed with tigers and sexually eccentric, Stark survived a dozen severe maulings - and five husbands. Now, at age 80 and about to lose her job, she decides that there is one last thing she needs to do: Mabel Stark wants to confess. Exuberant and inventive, The Final Confession of Mabel Stark transports its readers to the camival world of the Big Top to an age before cinema and television, when circus performers were superstars.
