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Globe-trotting backpacker Cait can't believe her luck when she falls head first into her dream job: roaming Australia with a travelling circus. The show's crew provides the solitary wanderer with a ready-made community and even the unexpected thrill of an unconventional love affair.The lifestyle is far from perfect, however: the flaws begin to show as the hard-drinking band of misfits reveal their damaged pasts, one by one, on this behemoth's inexorable journey.Intermingled with Cait's story are disturbing tales of other outcasts: a wretched gang of pirates and the rambling inmates of a dementia care home.Careering pell-mell from lawlessness and sex to jealousy, heartache and betrayal, Cait's is a page-turner of a story: a voyage you'll never forget.