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Fantasy

The magic toyshop

by Angela Carter
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Description

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 has 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 gardens. And brooding Uncle Philip loves only the life-sized wooden puppets he creates in his toyshop.

What it’s like

ViolenceStandard
HorrorChilling
SpiceFade-to-Black

Details

First published
1967
Pages
198
Reading time
About 4 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Language
English
Series
Standalone

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