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The Magic Toyshop
by Angela Carter
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After a sudden family tragedy, fifteen-year-old Melanie and her younger siblings are sent to live above their uncle’s London toyshop. The household is ruled by Uncle Philip, a forbidding puppet-maker whose life-sized creations exert an unsettling presence over everyone around him. Melanie finds uncertain allies in her silent aunt and her aunt’s brothers, but the shop’s theatrical games increasingly blur imagination, desire and control. Set within a shadowy domestic world of mechanical birds, masks and uncanny performances, Angela Carter’s novel is a compact gothic coming-of-age story filled with menace, strange beauty and emotionally charged family bonds.
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