My thanks to Bloomsbury for sharing the love today, and three copies of A Card From Angela Carter by Susannah Clapp are there for the winning and they can go worldwide.
And now, having come over all wistful at the mention of cats like furry coffee tables in The Magic Toyshop, I couldn't resist wheeling out the late very great Rocky to help us today... he would have been large enough to support a good-sized tray most willingly I'm sure.
A brief reminder of Angela Carter's place in the literary firmament from my thoughts on the book here on January 30th ...
Susannah Clapp positions Angela Carter within a literary timeline and context that perhaps explains why her writing went largely unacknowledged during her lifetime...
''...ten years too old and entirely too female to be mentioned routinely alongside Martin Amis, Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan as being a youg pillar of British fiction...twenty years too young to belong to what she considered the 'alternate pantheon' of Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark. in the forties, when 'in a curious way, women formed the ascendancy'..."
Names in comments as usual, and we will draw the lucky recipients at the weekend.
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