Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies – by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. The stories in <i>The Doll's Alphabet</i> are by turns childlike and naive, grotesque and very dark, the marriage of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.
