Angela Carter | The Magic Toyshop
- Copyright © Angela Carter 1967
Copyright © The Beneficiaries of Angela Carter 1992
Introduction copyright © Carmen Callil 2008
One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London to live with relatives she never met: Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless, and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and the volatile Finn, who kisses Melanie in the ruins of the pleasure garden. And brooding Uncle Philip loves only the life-sized wooden puppets he creates in his toyshops. The classic gothic novel established Angela Carter as one of our most imaginative writers and augurs the themes of her later creative works."A magic novel, sexy and eccentric, romantic and tricky." - The VillageVoice Literary Supplement
- Language: English
- Dimensions: 13 х 21 cm
- Pages: 208
- Cover: softcover
- First published: 1967
- This edition published: 2006