
From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, a startling tale of the redemptive power of physical and emotional love 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. This classic gothic novel established Angela Carter as one of our most imaginative writers and augurs the themes of her later creative work.
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2011-04-04
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Letade upp boken p biblioteket och blev frst fngad av hur sagoaktig den kndes. Ganska mrklig historia som nstan knns riktad till en yngre lsarkrets. vertrffar sig sjlv i konstighet p slutet. Inte alls vad jag hade vntat mig. Knner mig aningen frbryllad, men en eloge till frfattaren fr att hon vgade behandla ett mne som r knsligt och tabubelagt n idag redan d hon skrev romanen, 1967.