A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction ... Packed with literary allusion and told wi

Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and gene

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The Bloody Chamber is such an important book to me. Angela Carter, for me, is still the one who said

A wonderful story that is all too human and all so real * Irish Times * A precise, poignant portrait

Powerful and very timely message * Guardian * Ultimately entertaining, enthusiastic and enjoyable. A

A testimony to Isherwood's undiminished brilliance as a novelist * Anthony Burgess * Lyrical and int

Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically unique. No one has ever writte

Addictive... Exhilarating... A pleasure * Evening Standard * Hypnotic, spellbinding * The Times * Co

Catches the absorption and giddy rush of adolescent love... It is also, for all the tragic momentum