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Mabel Stark was the best female tiger trainer ever sold. Within the 1910s and 20s, when circus was the most popular entertainment in America, she was the largest attraction for the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus.Mabel was five-feet tall, brazen, suicidally courageous, obsessed with tigers and sexually eccentric. In THE ULTIMATE Confession of Mabel Stark, Robert Hough has used the documents of her life to explore the mysteries of her heart. His vibrant and moving fictional autobiography starts in 1968. Mabel is just turning eighty and is about to lose her job. Confronted with the loss of her cats, she looks back on her life, her escapades and her tragedies, her love affairs with tigers and men. She also confronts her darkest secret, her guilt at committing, 'the worst thing one person can do to another.' Now, with the end of her life around the corner, there is a very important factor most of all she needs to do. Mabel Stark wants to confess. Exuberant and inventive, THE ULTIMATE Confession of Mabel Stark transports its readers to the age before cinema and television, when circus performers were superstars. It really is a wonderful novel and an unputdownable biography of an gloriously idiosyncratic life.
