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      The Magic Toyshop

      by Angela Carter
      Published
      Jan 1989
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      208
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      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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      General Fiction

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      Comedy / Humor

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      Aug 1996 Penguin ISBN13 9780140256406 ISBN10 0140256407
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      Jan 1992 Random House ISBN13 9780860681908 ISBN10 0860681904
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      First Edition Jan 1989 Random House (UK) ISBN13 9780091823481 ISBN10 009182348X
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      Jul 2008 Little, Brown ISBN13 9781844085231 ISBN10 1844085236
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