The Attic Child

Surreal, ambitious, and exquisitely conceived, The Doll’s Alphabet is a collection of stories in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies many images recur in stories that are in turn child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark. In “Unstitching”, a feminist revolution takes place. In “Waxy”, a factory worker fights to keep hold of her Man in a society where it is frowned upon to be Manless. In “Agata’s Machine”, two schoolgirls conjure a Pierrot and an angel in a dank attic room…

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