Best Angela Carter?

[Clawdy]

To my shame,just realized have never read any Angela Carter,so decided to pick one of her novels for my next book-group choice. Any suggestions?

[ArcticRoll]

Nights at the Circus

[Snazzynewyear]

Some people like the early stuff - very Gothic fairytale - such as The Magic Toyshop and some like the late stuff where it's also rollicking, for want of a better word. I love Wise Children. It's all good though

[ArcticRoll]

Oh yes Snazzynewyear I agree-forgot about Wise Children-I prefer it to Nights at the Circus .

[sassytheFIRST]

Bloody chamber might be good for a book group. Lots of re-envisaged fairy tales with a gothic and feminist twist. Interesting and varied. Accessible too.

[Bluestocking]

I think you can't really go wrong with AC. I have a particular fondness for The Magic Toyshop because I read it as a young teenager, and it's set in Crystal Palace where I grew up.

[Clawdy]

Thanks!they all sound really interesting.

[DuchessofMalfi]

I've got The Bloody Chamber too - it will be my first Angela Carter book. Waiting for the right time to read it :)

[notnowImreading]

Wise Children is my all-time favourite Carter. It's so beautiful and humane but so funny at the same time. Plus it's got a lot of Shakespearean tropes in it, which always sells me on pretty much any book (as long as they're coupled with rude similes for willies, which this book also has).

[UserNameAngst]

We read Heroes and Villains as a counterpoint to The Hunger Games which worked reasonably well.

[NationalLottie]

Nights at the circus is wonderful, magic realism, thinking of that for my book group, have not read Wise Children in a long time.