The Magic Toyshop

Angela Carter, Carmen Callil, Carmen Callil

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English

Virago
02 March 1996

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Virago Modern Classics

'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

'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

'This crazy world whirled around her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds are mechanical and the few human figures went masked . . . She was in the night once 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.

By: Angela Carter
Introduction by: Carmen Callil, Carmen Callil
Imprint: Virago
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 169mm, Width: 199mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 134g
ISBN: 9780860681908
ISBN 10: 0860681904
Series: Virago Modern Classics
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 02 March 1996
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Angela Carter was born in 1940. One of Britain's most original and disturbing writers, she died in 1992.

Reviews for The Magic Toyshop

Carter's second novel, first published in 1967, is set against the oppressive backdrop of a most bizarre household, complete with toyshop and puppet theatre. Fifteen-year-old Melanie and her younger siblings are thrust into this bleak, isolated world of their uncle's house, in an obscure part of South London, and have to cope with their new surroundings. With an extraordinary and intense characterization the novel plunges the reader into a vivid tale of youthful innocence, power struggles and family kinship. Winner of the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. (Kirkus UK)