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The Dollmaker (Paperback)
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The Dollmaker (Paperback)
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List price R348
Loot Price R285
Discovery Miles 2 850
You Save R63 (18%)
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EWA CHAPLIN WASN'T AFRAID TO MAKE DOLLS THAT WEREN'T COMFORTING.
SHE SEEMED TO KNOW THAT DOLLS ARE PEOPLE, JUST LIKE US. THE
BEWITCHING NEW NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING GUARDIAN FRESH VOICES
AUTHOR 'A fantastic book' Andrew O'Hagan 'Wholly original - worthy
of a modern Grimm' Andrew Caldecott, author of Rotherweird 'A
masterful and multi-layered haunted toyshop of a novel' Tony White,
author of The Fountain in the Forest Stitch by perfect stitch,
Andrew Garvie makes exquisite dolls in the finest antique style.
Like him, they are diminutive, but graceful, unique and with
surprising depths. Perhaps that's why he answers the enigmatic
personal ad in his collector's magazine. Letter by letter, Bramber
Winters reveals more of her strange, sheltered life in an
institution on Bodmin Moor, and the terrible events that put her
there as a child. Andrew knows what it is to be trapped; and as
they knit closer together, he weaves a curious plan to rescue her.
On his journey through the old towns of England he reads the
fairytales of Ewa Chaplin - potent, eldritch stories which, like
her lifelike dolls, pluck at the edges of reality and thread their
way into his mind. When Andrew and Bramber meet at last, they will
have a choice - to remain alone with their painful pasts or break
free and, unlike their dolls, come to life. A love story of two
very real, unusual people, The Dollmaker is also a novel rich with
wonders: Andrew's quest and Bramber's letters unspool around the
dark fables that give our familiar world an uncanny edge. It is
this touch of magic that, like the blink of a doll's eyes, tricks
our own . . .
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