PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
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.
The boldest of English women writers Lorna Sage Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night sky with her starry language Observer She can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales The Times Beneath its contemporary surface, this novel shimmers with blurred echoes-from Lewis Carroll, from 'Giselle' and 'Coppelia,' Harlequin and Punch... It leaves behind it a flavor, pungent and unsettling New York Times 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
