Doll's Alphabet, Paperback/Camilla Grudova

'The Doll's Alphabet' is a collection of surreal, dystopian, feminist horror stories, reminiscent of the work of Angela Carter, Deborah Levy and Margaret Atwood. The stories are linked by a grimy, squalid atmosphere, and the sense of being in a familiar yet dystopian world. Many images keep recurring - dolls, babies, sewing machines, underwear, food, wolves, mirrors - in stories that are in turn child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark.