The Magic Toyshop

Cover design by Jacqueline Groag

This crazy world whirled about her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked . . . She was in the night again, and the doll was herself

One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother s wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave her rural home, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: gentle Aunt Margaret, mute since her wedding day; and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and the volatile Finn. Brooding over all is Uncle Philip, who loves only the puppets he creates in his workshop, which are life-sized - and uncannily life-like.

“The boldest of English women writers' Lorna Sage'Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' Observer”

The boldest of English women writers' Lorna Sage 'Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' Observer

The boldest of English women writers - Lorna Sage

Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language - Observer

The boldest of English women writers - Lorna Sage

Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language - Observer

Angela Carter (1940-1992) is one of Britain's most original and disturbing writers. THE MAGIC TOYSHOP won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1969 and SEVERAL PERCEPTIONS won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1968.

Cover design by Jacqueline GroagThis crazy world whirled about her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked . . . She was in the night again, and the doll was herself One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother s wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave her rural home, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: gentle Aunt Margaret, mute since her wedding day; and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and the volatile Finn. Brooding over all is Uncle Philip, who loves only the puppets he creates in his workshop, which are life-sized - and uncannily life-like.

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