Written in English
Booker 2011 · Shortlist
Jamrach's Menagerie
Jamrach's Menagerie
Carol Birch · 60 when first published
Novel · 352 pages · Historical, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In London in 1857, eight-year-old Jaffy Brown, a child of the East End slums, comes face to face with an escaped tiger and is saved by Mr Jamrach, a dealer in exotic animals, who later sends him to sea.