Merry-Go-Round: A Novel

by Robin Maxwell

A riotous tale, bursting with picaresque energy, and spiced with wicked humor, about a Eurasian Don Juan caught up in a world of missionaries, taipans, and warlords. It is an intimate portrayal of the manners of the age, embodying abundant historical background of considerable interest.

344 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Robin Maxwell began writing novels about the historical figures she had been obsessing about since graduating from Tufts University with a degree in Occupational Therapy. Her first novel, "The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn," now in its 24th printing, won two YA awards and has been translated into fourteen languages. "The Wild Irish" - an epic tale of Ireland's rebel queen, Grace O'Malley - closed out her Elizabethan Quartet, and is now in development for a television series. "Signora Da Vinci" and "Jane: The Woman Who loved Tarzan" are tales of the remarkable women behind two of the world's most beloved wildmen - Maestro Leonardo and Lord Greystoke. She has jumped genres again with "ATLANTOS," now a #1 Amazon Bestseller. Robin lives with her husband of thirty-five years, Max Thomas, at High Desert Eden, a wildlife sanctuary in the Mojave Desert.