My new novel, The Trouble With Tigers, will be published by Orion Dash in 2022 and is based on a true story.

I had been thinking of writing a novel set in India for a while when I became friends with a woman with Anglo-Indian ancestry. She told me about her grandmother who ran away to the circus in India to escape an abusive marriage. She left her home in Cawnpore in the 1930s leaving behind her husband and 7-year-old son and joined Harmstons – a small circus with its permanent home in Bu...