- Teenage girls, orphans, Fiction, Fairy tales
From back cover: "One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Grave, intimate, bleak and prestige.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
YesNoUnclear
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Angela Carter
- First published
- 1967
- Pages
- 200
- Publisher
- Hyperion Books, Simon and Schuster, Chivers Audio Books
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140256406
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 7 have read it and 103 want to.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
alias Grace 199685% alikeBoth grave.
Boy, Snow, Bird 201483% alikeBoth grave.
The Bloody Chamber 197883% alikeBoth grave, intimate.
Both grave, intimate.
Of Love and Other Demons 199679% alikeBoth grave.
Snow, Glass, Apples 201978% alikeBoth grave, intimate.
Affinity 199977% alikeBoth grave, intimate.
The Great Gatsby 192077% alikeBoth grave.
Heavenly Creatures 199482% alikeFilm · Both grave, intimate.
Quills 200079% alikeFilm · Both grave, intimate.