TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allan,Nina
TI  - The dollmaker
SN  - 9781787472549 (paperback)
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Riverrun, an imprint of the Quercus Editions
KW  - Asylums
KW  - England
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women
KW  - Institutional care
KW  - Letter writing
KW  - Dollmaking
KW  - Dollmakers
KW  - Individual differences
KW  - Dwarfs (Persons)
KW  - Letters
KW  - Psychiatric hospital patients
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Bodmin Moor (England)
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Epistolary fiction
KW  - Gothic fiction
N1  - "A love story about becoming real"--Cover
N2  - 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
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