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Wise Children

byAngela Carter, Ali Smith (Introducer)

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I know it in my ancient water, that something will happen today...

Today is the 75th birthday of identical twin sisters, Dora and Nora. And on this day their story begins, a richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances. It is in fact, the 23rd April, Shakespeare’s birthday and as Dora’s story unfurls, over the course of a whole century, it is populated with as many sets of twins, mistaken identities and unlikely coincidences as any Shakespeare comedy.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH

'It is wise, bawdy, vulgar, eloquent and very, very funny... And the writing is often breathtakingly lyrical... A masterpiece. Please share' Guardian

Wise Children is Angela Carter's best book. It deserves many prizes and, better than that, the affection of generations of readers

Times Literary Supplement

About Angela Carter

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.
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  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • ISBN: 9780099981107
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 130mm
  • Weight: 185g
  • Price: £9.99
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