About the Author

Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.

Reviews

'An unashamed fantasist, a fabulist of daemonic energy'
*The Times*

'Angela Carter is a genius'
*Victoria Glendinning*